On ADB's Decision-Making Process And Its Relevant Factors

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was set up in November 1966 and selected Manila, the capital of the Philippines as its headquarters. It's an intergovernmental finance organization cosponsored by both Asian-Pacific countries and western developed countries, and its mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people. Since its establishment, ADB's impact on the life of many people is far-reaching, and it has become the second biggest investor in the region.With regards to ADB's increasing influence, how to understand and optimize its decision-making is not only a significant practical problem, but also an academic proposition needed to be further explored. The dissertation tries to answer these questions:what mian fators are involved in ADB's decision-making process? What role do they play? What mutual relations among them?Accordingly, the dissertation tries to argue that power politics, organizational culture and civil society are the main facors influencing ADB's decision-making. As for their roles, power politics is the dominant factor, organizational culture is a basic factor, and civil society is a valuably complementary factor. Another point of view is furtherly put forword that multilateral decision-making is not the prerogative of the state, and politics of multilateral organization is a continuously-interacted and socially-constructed field operated by states, multilateral organization and civil society organizations.So, based on international political theories, organizational culture theories and civil society theories, combined with case study and historical analysis, the dissertation attemptes to explore how the three factors above-mentioned influence the ADB's decision-making process. The argument framework is organized as follows: Firstly, the chapter one analyzes ADB's organization structure from the perspective of power distribution, and then dicusses its decision-making process based on organizational decision-making theories and substracts three main factors influencing ADB's decision-making, namely power politics, organizational culture and civil society. Chapter two, three and four will respectively discuss how and to what degree power politics, organizational culture and civil society impact on ADB's decision-making. Finally, it will draw a conclusion and make several more relevant arguments.