Blind organisations

The role of immigrant organisations in the transforming welfare state: Revealing blind spots in the Netherlands

This paper juxtaposes the framework of research on the role of voluntary work in the welfare state with discussion about the societal role of immigrant organisations, focusing on the Netherlands case. We identify limitations in local research and policy evaluations of immigrant organisation contributions, and argue that Dutch social policy defines organisations by one specific view, called ‘soc...

Modelling organisations

Modelling administrative organisations appears to be difficult. We claim that the main reason is that architects, modelling those organisations, encounter problems in finding the right level of abstraction, i.e. in deciding what to describe and what to omit. Based on our experience, we propose four conceptual domains for modelling organisations. These domains constitute the first form of abstra...

Regional Organisations

Understanding Organisations:

The management of organisational change has become a normal part of the manager’s role. Change is regarded as the norm and periods of stability are taken as the exception for many organisations operating in the current era. The author asserts that one of the taken-for-granted assumptions about managing change is that managers have a competent understanding of what organisations are and how they...

Managing Stovepiped Organisations - a Comparison of Public and Private Organisations

Stovepiped systems and difficulties associated with managing cross-functional boundaries are problems that are hindering the successful implementation of customercentred systems and processes within public organisations. The present study covers public organisations, and discusses and analyses the results in relation to those from a previous study in the banking sector. While problems with stov...