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Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors.

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This work examines organization theory and behaviour, change, and reform worldwide. It views organization in two ways: as an organization of society into public, private, and nonprofit sectors; and looks at organizing activity, such as creating institutional arrangements to perform tasks.

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Challenging the prevailing view of privatization, this book analyzes the state of privatization around the world and offers policy suggestions.

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Comparative study of public enterprise management in different countries around the world, pointing to historical trends and current issues and problems.

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Invoking a term attributed to Darius the Great over 2,500 years agosound governanceeditors Ali Farazmand and Rosalyn Carter set the stage for a rich and multidimensional collection of essays on emerging issues in public administration around the world.

Topics include: The impact and influence of the United Nations;

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Farazmand, a former bureaucrat in the Pahlavi state administration, argues that the latter functioned more to maintain the state and to control society than to provide its population with services and with help for development.