Obsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy? : : coping with uncertainty in development aid relations / / Susanna Alexius (Stockholm Center for Organizational Research (Score), Sweden), Janet Vähämäki (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden).
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Bingley, U.K. : : Emerald Publishing Limited,, 2024. ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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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?