Purpose

The article aims at improving the authors’ understanding on how international organizations function by shedding light on management reforms at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The article shows the characteristics of the performance management system implemented at the OECD, the main obstacles encountered, adaptations addressing the low measurability of policy advice activities and other issues.

Design/methodology/approach

While multilateral collaboration could be an effective way to contrast several wicked problems, the global actors face multiple legitimacy and financial challenges. This makes understanding the way they function of outmost importance. Unfortunately, public management and administration research, while steadily grown around the reform efforts of national governments, has neglected the global level. The article addresses this literature gap through the in-depth analysis of a case study aimed at exploring the unfamiliar international organizations context. It relies on two literature streams: performance management and network management. The collaborative nature of international organizations makes the latter particularly useful.

Findings

Among the various public administration types, international organizations providing policy advise display several features that make performance measurement more difficult. The OECD case study analysis offers several insights into other international institutions struggling with managerial reforms in an effort to address legitimacy and financial issues. It shows that implementing a performance management system is possible and necessary to sustain the support of member countries and ensure a well-functioning multilateral system.

Research limitations/implications

The single case study offers only limited and analytical generalizability of the findings.

Practical implications

Research on international organizations could help to unveil implementation obstacles or undesired effects of management reforms in other coping and networked organizations.

Originality/value

The article investigates the OECD, which is one of the less studied among the many global multilateral institutions. Other original features include the adoption of a public management approach to the study international organizations and the focus on network performance, a recent topic in the network management literature.

中文翻译：

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网络组织中的绩效管理：经合组织

目的

本文旨在通过阐明经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的管理改革，增进作者对国际组织运作方式的理解。本文显示了经合组织实施的绩效管理系统的特征，遇到的主要障碍，针对政策咨询活动可测量性低的适应措施以及其他问题。

设计/方法/方法

尽管多边合作可能是对付几个邪恶问题的有效方法，但全球行为者面临着多重合法性和财务挑战。这使得了解它们的工作方式极为重要。不幸的是，公共管理和行政研究虽然在各国政府的改革努力中稳步发展，但却忽略了全球范围。本文通过对案例研究的深入分析来解决这一文学空白，该案例研究旨在探索陌生的国际组织环境。它依赖于两个文献流：性能管理和网络管理。国际组织的合作性质使后者特别有用。

发现

在各种公共管理类型中，提供政策建议的国际组织显示了一些使绩效衡量更加困难的功能。经合组织的案例研究分析为努力应对合法性和财务问题的其他国际机构提供了一些见识，这些机构正为管理改革而苦苦挣扎。它表明，实施绩效管理系统是可能的，而且是维持成员国支持并确保运作良好的多边体系的必要条件。

研究局限/意义

单个案例研究仅提供了有限的分析性结论。

实际影响

对国际组织的研究可能有助于揭示其他应对和网络组织中的实施障碍或管理改革的不良后果。

创意/价值

本文研究了经合组织，该组织是众多全球多边机构中研究较少的组织之一。其他原始功能包括对国际组织进行研究时采用公共管理方法，以及对网络性能的关注，这是网络管理文献中的最新话题。