We review the research both for and against patient participation in decision-making and conclude that (a) patients want to be informed of treatment alternatives, (b) they, in general, want to be involved in treatment decisions when more than one treatment alternative exists, and (c) the...

Wie bedingen sich Rechenschaftslegung und organisationales Lernen im weltweit zweitgrößten bilateralen System der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ)? Wir analysieren Interviewdaten von Mitarbeitenden der beiden deutschen größten EZ-Durchführungsorganisationen: der Deutschen Gesellschaft für...

Summary Adding to official development assistance (ODA), private foundations have emerged as important donors to the global health agenda. Amid this increasing funder diversity and growing global health budgets, responsiveness to recipients' needs is a central concern. Merging datasets on ODA...

Confronted with mounting pressure to ensure accountability vis-à-vis customers, citizens and beneficiaries, organizational leaders need to decide how to choose and implement so-called accountability standards. Yet while looking for an appropriate standard, they often base their decisions on...

International development agencies have recently been warning of a ‘dark side of urban growth.’ Fast-growing cities are characterized as potentially destabilizing forces preventing human progress. Indeed, in Asia-Pacific, the world’s fastest urbanizing region to date, the number of...

This paper assesses transdisciplinarity as an epistemological and methodological approach to research and teaching in the emerging field of global studies. It posits that the world’s most pressing problems in the areas of migration, health and intersectional identity politics, to name a few,...