Who do you change, OECD? A change in the accession process of the OECD
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2023-07-14
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This thesis aimed to determine which theory of change would explain the change of the accession process of the OECD. This thesis ensured that every theory of change was used and did not only focus on the theories surrounding change in international organisations. The thesis, therefore, included theories regarding change in “normal” organisations. This resulted in seven different theories of change, of which five were sufficiently distinct. One theory was impossible to test and was therefore discarded. The other theories provided the four hypotheses used in the thesis. When using process tracing on the reports of the OECD, it became clear that only two hypotheses remained. These hypotheses represented the lifecycle theory and the dialectical theory. The hypothesis of the dialectical theory was stronger than the lifecycle theory since it could explain more. Combining the theories would result in a complete picture where the dialectical theory provides the driving mechanism of change and the lifecycle theory provides the tool to understand change.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen