Obsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy? : coping with uncertainty in development aid relations

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Complex coordination across time, space, and cultures involves a great deal of uncertainty. This uncertainty may be accepted and handled with judgment and pragmatism, but more often in contemporary modern society, it...

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Main Authors Alexius, Susanna (Author), Vähämäki, Janet (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
Subjects
Bureaucracy.
Management.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801173766
DOI10.1108/9781801173742
Physical Description1 online resource (204 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Coping with uncertainty in development aid relations
  • Chapter 2. Complexities, uncertainties and responses
  • Chapter 3. Recipients are responsible donors too: On plural actorhood and role-switching
  • Chapter 4. Practices of approximation: Simplifying the complex and controlling the future
  • Chapter 5. In proper organization we trust: On extrapolation from proper organization proxies
  • Chapter 6. Certainty for sale? - A historic exposé on the role of external experts in development aid 1960s-2020s
  • Chapter 7. Multivocal brokering: Translating and decoupling for results
  • Chapter 8. Pragmatic bureaucracy - An antidote to obsessive measurement disorder?

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