Public management

While multilateral collaboration is an effective way to contrast several wicked problems, the OECD, like other global actors, has faced multiple challenges that have called into question its management systems. Such challenges included: weakened representativeness and influence; intensified institutional competition and overlap; an identity crisis; and high financial pressure. The current management system is the result of reforms implemented since the mid-1990s and especially in 2002. The aim was to sharpen accountability at all levels; to reassure member countries that the resources they entrust to the OECD are managed efficiently and effectively; and to ensure that OECD outputs respond to the most important policy concerns of governments have an impact on policy making in capitals. The chapter analyses the characteristics of the management system, the main obstacles encountered by reforms, adaptations addressing the low measurability of policy advice activities and other issues.