Management of international organizations

The administrative-business rationality entering the UN

Authors

  • Osvaldo Javier López Ruiz State University of Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26489/rvs.v31i43.2

Keywords:

International organizations-UN, managerial rationality, bureaucratic ethos, life orders, Max Weber

Abstract

This paper discusses, from a sociological perspective and a critical point of view, the relationship
between international organizations of the United Nations’ System and management. We analyse
documental material and interviews done in different organisms and agencies of the un in Geneva,
to reflect about the new practices promoted by theories and rhetoric of management inside these
organizations, considering them as paradigmatic institutions of a globalizing world. The issues
about practices, values and the type of subject that is shaped and promoted there, are opened to
some other areas of the social and put in relation “management” with the ways of conducting life
and work in our present

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Author Biography

  • Osvaldo Javier López Ruiz, State University of Campinas

    Sociologist, doctor of Social Sciences from the State University
    from Campinas (UnicamP), Brazil. Researcher at the Institute of Human, Social Sciences
    and Environmental (incihusa) of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research
    (conicet), Mendoza, Argentina; Professor of the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences
    from the National University of Cuyo, Argentina.

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Published

2018-07-01

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 43 (2018): Sociology of Management

Section

Dossier

How to Cite

Management of international organizations: The administrative-business rationality entering the UN. (2018). Revista De Ciencias Sociales, 31(43), 35-56. https://doi.org/10.26489/rvs.v31i43.2