Obsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy? : (Record no. 36160)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781801173766 |
| Qualifying information | (e-book) |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtOrBLW |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UtOrBLW |
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| Classification number | HD31.2 |
| Item number | .A44 2024 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | BUS041000 |
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| Subject category code | KJM |
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| Universal Decimal Classification number | 658 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 658 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alexius, Susanna, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Obsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy? : |
| Remainder of title | coping with uncertainty in development aid relations / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Susanna Alexius (Stockholm Center for Organizational Research (Score), Sweden), Janet Vähämäki (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden). |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Bingley, U.K. : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Emerald Publishing Limited, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2024. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (204 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 is treated as a technical problem to be 'solved'. This is a book about the paradoxical implications of the quest for certainty in interorganizational relations in the complex field of development aid. Authors Alexius and Vähämäki scrutinize questions related to the concept Obsessive Measurement Disorder, i.e. what causes an increase in control mechanisms, and how and when can this prove counterproductive? They further investigate the question on why performance management - and measurement requirements seem in some instances to hinder, and in others to support the implementation of aid projects and programs. Drawing on 80 original interviews with aid bureaucrats working at different levels and in different organizations, including public agencies, companies, non-government organisations, and universities all involved in development aid projects financed fully, or in part, by the Swedish taxpayer, they identify coping mechanisms and responses that may help to prevent the extremes of obsessive measurement disorder, and foster instead pragmatic, constructive organizing and learning that benefits not only aid organizations and their employees, but also - and more fundamentally - the societies in need. |
| 588 0# - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Bureaucracy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Management. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Business & Economics |
| General subdivision | Management. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Management and management techniques. |
| Source of heading or term | thema |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vähämäki, Janet, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781801173773 |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | PDF version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781801173742 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/9781801173742">https://doi.org/10.1108/9781801173742</a> |
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