ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how Médécins sans Frontières (MSF) Holland and ACT Netherlands decide on the locations and activities of their humanitarian aid projects. The theoretical framework was used to study decision-making processes in humanitarian aid NGOs. The different methods of data collection helped to deal with the fact that the logic of the garbage can focuses on the organizational level as decision-making unit, where the other two logics focus on the individual. The logic of appropriateness would be connected to Selznick's ideal type of the 'institution', meaning an informally and decentrally structured organizational setting in which internalized values are guiding the decision-making process. This chapter discusses the higher level of abstraction; it can conclude that MSF Holland's consequential work method could be seen as appropriate behavior. MSF Holland's organizational features showed a striking resemblance to the ideal type of the administrative organization, while ACT Netherlands' organizational structure had features of the institution.
