IVS Seminar

Seminar with Natalia Martín Cruz

Assistant Professor at Organization Department, University of Valladolid, Spain

“Contracting out humanitarian services”

Abstract:

Internal structure of organizations has always been a considered a relevant topic, but scarcely treated in the literature. In this paper, we focus on non-governmental development organizations (NGDO), greatly concerned with obtaining a suitable organizational design for the development of their strategy, the size of their organization or the changes in their environment. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the balance of organizational components in the design of an efficient organizational architecture from an agency perspective. The results of the empirical analysis, performed in the most prominent Spanish NGDO throughout the year 2003, evidence the great importance of the mutual influence among the delegation of decision rights, the incentive systems and the use of performance measurements in the achievement of organizational equilibrium, what allows us to affirm that, for NGDO sector, the theory is confirmed.

For more information, please see the paper “The Spanish NGDO and the challenges of organizational architecture design: An Agency perspective,” by Víctor Martín Pérez, Natalia Martín Cruz and Juan Hernangómez Barahona, available for download below.

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