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The Projectification of the Public Sector book cover

1st Edition

The Projectification of the Public Sector

Edited By Damian Hodgson, Mats Fred, Simon Bailey, Patrik Hall Copyright 2019
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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In recent decades, we have witnessed an increasing use of projects and similar temporary modes of organising in the public sector of nations in Europe and around the world. While for some this is a welcome development which unlocks entrepreneurial zeal and renders public services more flexible and accountable, others argue that this seeks to depoliticise policy initiatives, rendering them... Read more

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

  1. Policy Pilots as Public Sector Projects: The Projectification of Policy and Research

  2. Why is Innovation Policy Projectified? Political Causes in the Case of Sweden

  3. Problematising the Project System: Rural Development in Indonesia

  4. Public Sector Innovation Projects: Beyond Bureaucracy and Market?

  5. In and Out of Amber: the New Zealand Government Major Projects Performance Reporting

  6. Project Management in the Shadow of Public Human Services

  7. Pilots as Projects: Policy Making in a State of Exception

  8. Project Governance in an Embedded State: Opportunities and Challenges

  9. The European Dimension of Projectification. Implications of the Project Approach in EU Funding Policy

  10. Agents, Techniques, and Tools of Projectification

  11. Observing the Process of Culture Projectification and its Agents: A Case Study of Kraków

  12. Standardisation and Its Consequences in Health Care: A Case Study of PRINCE2 Project Management Training

  13. The Freelance Project Manager as an Agent of Governmentality: Evidence from a UK Local Authority

Notes on Contributors

Index

Biography

Damian Hodgson is Professor of Organisational Analysis at Alliance Manchester Business School and Co-Director of the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation, University of Manchester, UK.

Mats Fred is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.

Simon Bailey is a researcher at the University of Kent, UK. His interests are in the sociological study of medicine, organisation, learning, and policy.

Patrik Hall is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.

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