TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wenzel, Bertolt
T1  - Organizing coordination for an ecosystem approach to marine research and management advice
T2  - Marine policy
N2  - This study examines the reorganization of formal coordination structures of a unique international public organization involved in marine governance in Europe, namely the structural reorganizations of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) between 1999 and 2009. The findings indicate that the reorganizations of ICES’ formal coordination structures were not driven primarily for reasons of efficiency, by clear and consistent goals, and by clear means-ends considerations for organizational design as proposed by rational perspectives in organization theory. Instead, the formal coordination structures have also been adapted to live up to changing expectations in the institutional environment, to modern management concepts in marine governance such as the Ecosystem Approach to Management (EAM), and to ensure the legitimacy of the organization. However, it is also found that institutional explanations alone are insufficient to comprehensively understand why the formal organizational structures of ICES were reorganized. Instrumental and cultural perspectives in organization theory as well as resource-dependence theory additionally add to understand how ICES responded to external demands and why organizational structures have been changed.
KW  - International public organization
KW  - Coordination
KW  - Organization theory
KW  - Ecosystem Approach to Management (EAM)
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54767
SN  - 0308-597X
SN  - 1872-9460
VL  - 82
SP  - 138
EP  - 146
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -