000K utf8 1100 2022$c2022-11-20 1500 ger 2050 urn:nbn:de:hbz:465-20240410-105639-6 2051 10.17185/diskurs/81685 3000 Christian, Ben 4000 Vermittlung und Kritik in internationalen Organisationen [Christian, Ben] 4209 International organizations (IOs) are often confronted with contradictory external demands. How do they mediate between the conflicting expectations of their various stakeholders? Drawing on the concept of organizational hypocrisy, this article sheds light on the mediation efforts of IOs. Mediation is understood as the counter-coupling of organizational talk and action that enables IOs to deal with the diverging imperatives of being both a ‘political organization’ and an ‘action organization’. Among other things, this understanding of mediation offers an innovative perspective on the question of why internal criticism by employees often finds little support in IOs. Due to the (necessary) discrepancy between words and action, IOs’ criticism culture is undermined in two ways: (1) internal criticism is suppressed by IO leadership out of fear that the existing hypocrisy could be publicly exposed; and (2) it is a challenge for IO staff to constructively criticize their hypocritical organization without being naive or cynical. 4950 https://doi.org/10.17185/diskurs/81685$xR$3Volltext$534 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:465-20240410-105639-6$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00081685 5051 320 5550 Internationale Organisationen 5550 Organisationale Heuchelei 5550 Vermittlung 5550 Zynismus