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Chapter 15

A concise summary of organisational life-cycle models, such as Greiner and Churchill and Lewis, can be found at: http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/small/Op-Qu/Organizational-Life-Cycle.html

A similar life-cycle model as applied to not-for-profit organizations is described at: http://www.gddf.org/articleDetail.asp?objectID=567

A portal to a number of resources on management in the public sector can be found at:  http://www.ipsm.org.uk/papers.htm

A nice illustration of the use of strategy maps in the public sector is to be found at: http://www.odgroup.com/articles/PSA1.pdf

A guide to the UK‘s policies on public-private partnerships and the Private Finance Initiative can be found at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/documents/public_private_partnerships/ppp_index.cfm

The Bank of Japan’s objectives and raison d’etre are on its website: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/exp/about/expboj.htm
For some more information on some of the major campaigning charities, see:
Friends of the Earth:  http://www.foe.co.uk/about_us/index.html
Greenpeace:  http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/what-we-do
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/
Médecins sans Frontières: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

And for more information on charitable foundations see:
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: http://www.rockfound.org/
Rockefeller Foundation: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
Wellcome Trust: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/

The organization that regulates charities in the UK is the Charities Commission; its website is at: http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/

Information on the Grameen Bank including its recent award of the Nobel Peace Prize can be found via: http://www.grameen-info.org/

One of the many articles to discuss whether the UK’s Home Office was ‘fit for purpose’ can be found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/may/27/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy1

The Centre for Economic Policy Research produces a number of reports on various social and policy matters. Papers can be downloaded from: http://www.cepr.org/eabcn/papers/.