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Case
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Reference no. 399-146-1
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: James Teboul; Gaela Bernini
Published by: INSEAD
Originally published in: 1999
Version: 09.1999
Length: 27 pages
Data source: Field research
Topics: Strategic direction; Diluted image/mission; Donors; Managing Volunteers; Variety of activities; Competition; Principles; Values; Fragmentation; Organisational change
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Abstract

The International Federation of the Red Cross is a federation of humanitarian agencies located almost in every country of the world. Starting in the mid-nineties, they are in a process of strategy re-formulation and organisational change due to the altered panorama. The case provides an example of the challenges an organisation with internal contradictions and paradoxes and external constraints has to face.
Location:
Geneva, South America
Industry:
Non for profit
Size:
Large
Other setting(s):
Late 1990s
Teaching note
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Reference no. 399-146-8
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: James Teboul; Gaela Bernini
Published by: INSEAD
Originally published in: 1999
Version: 11.1999
Length: 9 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract

The International Federation of the Red Cross is a federation of humanitarian agencies located almost in every country of the world. Starting in the mid-nineties, they are in a process of strategy re-formulation and organisational change due to the altered panorama. The case provides an example of the challenges an organisation with internal contradictions and paradoxes and external constraints has to face.

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Location:
Geneva, South America
Industry:
Non for profit
Size:
Large
Other setting(s):
Late 1990s

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Teaching note
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Reference no. 399-146-8
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: James Teboul; Gaela Bernini
Published by: INSEAD
Originally published in: 1999
Version: 11.1999
Length: 9 pages
Data source: Field research
View full details