Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission - (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics) by C Ban (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement. Based on extensive interviews, the work provides a lively and readable picture of life within the Commission, exploring how thousands of newcomers were recruited and socialized and how they changed the organization, including its gender balance.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This work represents an important contribution in several...In line with Abélès and Bellier´s study of the culture of compromise at the Commission, this book offers a description of this institution drawing on political anthropology, which fills a gap in recent studies. Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission is based on impressive efforts at data collection: over six years, from 2006 to 2012, Carolyn Ban conducted about 140 semi-structured interviews with EU officials in Brussels and 91 semi-structured interviews with managers inside the governments of six new member states... The fact that she conducted the interviews by herself contributes appreciably to the quality of the collected information."</p> <p>Stéphanie Novak of the Hertie School of Governance, Germany.</p> <p>Read the full review at The Council for European Studies website at the following link: http: //councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom/management-and-culture-in-an-enlarged-european-commission-from-diversity-to-unity/</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Carolyn Ban is Professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She has worked as a manager in the public and private sector and as Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her works include <em>How Do Public Managers Manage? Bureaucratic Constraints, Organizational Culture, and the Potential for Reform</em>. <p/>
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