La régulation

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Performance of Administrative Reforms: Can the Organizational Development Approach Reconcile Utopia and Dystopia?

“…According to Wheatley (2006), all these strategies are based on a need to control the world, and on the implicit assumption that we live in a simple, orderly and predictable world (cf., the technicist rationality assumptions of Taylor, Fayol). The resulting change practices have also become enmeshed in this functionalist, mechanistic conception of the organization, which often translates into linear change practices leading, among other things, to the phenomena of bureaucratic vicious circles (Crozier & Friedberg, 1977;Pollitt, 2013Pollitt, , 2015Timsit, 1998;Reynaud, 1997). In short, as (Barnabé, 2010: p. 13;quoting Capra, 2004) points out, it seems that it is the grip of the mechanistic vision in management that is today one of the main obstacles to organizational change.…”

“…When it comes to adopting and implementing administrative reforms, the abundant existing literature shows that each country has its own history, trajectory(s) and achievements. In this literature, the expression "administrative modernization", which recurs repeatedly to describe these reforms, reflects a permanence-even an "inescapability"-which expresses, according to Metzger (2000: p. 8), "the existence of fundamental issues that have never been stabilized, such as the role of the State or the privileged mode of its action" (cf., Beer, Eisenstah, & Spector, 1990;Emery, 2010;Huerta, 2008;Ngouo, 2003;Timsit, 1998). At the dawning of the 21 st century, drawing lessons from the rather mitigated results 1 obtained from efforts to modernize public services, several analyses conclude that it is necessary to rethink the architecture and functioning of the State in its various irreplaceable roles at the service of the general interest (Bourgon, 2017;Morin, 1999Morin, , 2011.…”

The Notion of Regulation in Internacional Law

“…In fact, the more superficial discrepancies between these two models seem rooted in a far more profound difference: the bureaucratic rationality of the state in continental Europe (as conceived by Weber), as opposed to the logic of the market, symbolized by the homo oeconomicus, in the United States (as conceived by the theory of competition). Each approach is guided by different underlying principles: the theory of the state is founded on the idea of general interest (or the common good), while the theory of the market rests on the notion of general balance (or perfect competition) (Timsit, 2004). Curiously, such differences did not prevent the emergence of fairly similar government structures in the various countries that adopted one approach or the other.…”

“…While Timsit (2004) may be correct in implying the collapse of the "classic model", the scope of the crisis must be put in proper perspective. Although market expansion into domains formerly held by the state is a well-known phenomenon, it does not entail across-the-board disengagement or even weakening of the state.…”