Valentina Mele Grabs the International Geneva Award 2011

Valentina Mele (Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management) is one of the recipients of the International Geneva Award 2011 for the paper Pathology of Path-dependency? The ILO and the Challenge of New Governance, forthcoming in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (co-authored by Lucio Baccaro, Université de Genève).

The International Geneva Award has been established by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) to encourage outstanding research scientists to produce publications that are particularly relevant for international organisations. The award is attributed to the three best papers published on a subject related to international studies and especially useful from the perspective of the Academic Council of International Geneva, a body which includes representatives from international organisations headquartered in Geneva.

The main theme of the paper is the difficulty faced by international organizations to adapt to a new environment through strategic and organizational change, in the same thread of research of another article by the same authors just published in Public Administration (Volume 89, Issue 2, pages 451-470, June 2011): For Lack of Anything Better. International Organizations And Global Corporate Codes.