AOC: Transnational NGOs as Agents of Change: Towards Understanding Their Governance, Leadership and Effectiveness

锡拉丘兹大学全球化、全球市场一体化、移民和民主化带来了几十年前无法想象的跨国挑战和机遇。跨国非政府组织是一种日益重要的“组织资源”，可帮助人们处理这些关切，因为它们把重点放在诸如减贫、难民流、人权、公平贸易、环境退化等全球问题上，并扩大代表不足的公民(如妇女、残疾人)的参与。在处理这些问题时，跨国非政府组织表现出明显的能力，能够促进参与全球治理的各种行为者之间的合作，但它们有时也有助于增加冲突程度，这取决于它们的使命、风格和所采用的战略。虽然跨国非政府组织在全球化和民主化中发挥的作用日益受到研究，但造成其组织效力--或相对无效--的因素仍在调查中。这个项目研究什么是跨国非政府组织--它们是如何组织的，治理和领导选择如何影响它们作为变革推动者的有效性。该项目将完成对区域和国际两级此类组织领导层的大规模、系统的访谈研究。重点是创建指标和基线数据，供学者和非政府组织使用，以了解这些组织是如何演变的、其领导的性质、其筹资战略、他们如何看待透明度和问责制问题、他们如何评价其组织的影响、他们在与政府和国际组织并肩工作时遇到的挑战，以及他们认为政府和国际组织正在对其活动性质产生的影响。迄今为止，大多数访谈研究的范围有限，往往选择侧重于审查跨国非政府组织发挥重要作用的特定案例。此外，这项研究一般采取了特定的理论观点，并没有像这里所做的那样，探讨看待跨国非政府组织如何运作的各种方式与它们可能或多或少有效的条件之间的联系。访谈的答复将被转换成一个数据库--这是第一个关于跨国非政府组织的数据库--为今后的研究提供基础。更广泛的影响。该项目进一步促进了关于跨国非政府组织的研究、教育和实践。该项目将开发一套材料，可用于为对跨国公共管理感兴趣的专业和博士生编制课程。对制定的指标、数据库和访谈记录的分析为围绕影响评估、建立网络、参与透明度以及如何影响政府和国际组织等主题的一套培训模块提供了基础。访谈数据将汇编在一个公开的数据库中，这是第一个关于跨国非政府组织的数据库。

SBE- 0527679Margaret HermannSyracuse University Globalization, global market integration, migration, and democratization have unleashed cross-national challenges and opportunities unimaginable a few decades ago. Transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are an increasingly important "organizational resource" for helping people manage these concerns focusing as they do on such global issues as poverty alleviation, refugee flows, human rights, fair trade, environmental degradation, and broadening the participation of underrepresented citizens (e.g., women, disabled). In tackling these problems, transnational NGOs have exhibited a clear ability to foster collaboration among the various actors involved in global governance, but they have also contributed at times to increasing the level of conflict, depending on their mission, style, and the strategies they have employed. While the growing role that transnational NGOs play in globalization and democratization has come under increasing study, the factors contributing to their organizational effectiveness-or relative ineffectiveness--remain under investigated. This project studies what transnational NGOs are-how they are organized and how governance and leadership choices influence their effectiveness as agents of change. The project will complete a large-scale, systematic interview study of the leadership of such organizations at both the regional and international levels. The focus is on creating indicators and baseline data for scholars and the NGO community to use in understanding how such organizations are evolving, the nature of their leadership, their funding strategies, how they perceive issues of transparency and accountability, the ways in which they evaluate their organizations' impacts, the challenges they experience in working along side governments and international organizations, and the effects that they believe governments and international organizations are having on the nature of their activities. Most interview studies to date have been limited in scope and have often chosen to focus on examining a particular case where transnational NGOs have played a significant role. Moreover, the research has generally taken a particular theoretical perspective and not explored, as is done here, the conjunction between the various ways of viewing how transnational NGOs work as well as the conditions under which they may be more or less effective. The responses from the interviews will be converted into a database--the first of its kind on transnational NGOs--that provides the basis on which future studies can build. Broader Impact. This project furthers research, education, and practice regarding transnational NGOs. The project will develop a set of materials that can be used in building a curriculum for professional and doctoral students interested in transnational public management. Analyses of the indicators that are developed, the data base, and the transcripts of the interviews provide the basis for a set of training modules around such themes as impact assessment, building networks, engaging in transparency, and how to influence governments and international organizations. Data from the interviews will be compiled will be developed in a publicly available database, the first of its kind on transnational NGOs.