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Diversity and Managing Diversity: Implications for Intergovernmental Organisations

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The previous chapter was concerned with analysing and portraying the situation of diversity and Managing Diversity at the Mekong River Commission and with respect to its organisational environment. In the course of that depiction it was now and then referred to intergovernmental organisations in general. In this chapter it is now intended to deduce first broad implications for diversity and Managing Diversity in IGOs based on the insights gained from the case study.

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(2008). Diversity and Managing Diversity: Implications for Intergovernmental Organisations. In: Managing Diversity in Intergovernmental Organisations. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90891-5_7

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