TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-foundational development management - power, politics and complexity
AU - Mowles, C.
N1 - Definitive article can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/ Copyright John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Development management as a practice borrows extensively and uncritically from management theories developed in the private sector, which are based on ideas of predictability and control, and systemic whole change. In contemporary management discourse, we are always rushing towards an idealised tomorrow. This article sets out an alternative theory of management, which the author calls post-foundational management, drawing on concepts of emergence. This privileges the local and the contextual, and argues that generalised plans and strategies are always taken up in particular contexts with particular actors engaged in political contestation about how to go on together. The future, then, is always provisional, even if idealised and will arise from the interweaving of many intentions. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
AB - Development management as a practice borrows extensively and uncritically from management theories developed in the private sector, which are based on ideas of predictability and control, and systemic whole change. In contemporary management discourse, we are always rushing towards an idealised tomorrow. This article sets out an alternative theory of management, which the author calls post-foundational management, drawing on concepts of emergence. This privileges the local and the contextual, and argues that generalised plans and strategies are always taken up in particular contexts with particular actors engaged in political contestation about how to go on together. The future, then, is always provisional, even if idealised and will arise from the interweaving of many intentions. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
KW - complexity sciences
U2 - 10.1002/pad.563
DO - 10.1002/pad.563
M3 - Article
SN - 0271-2075
VL - 30
SP - 149
EP - 158
JO - Public Administration and Development
JF - Public Administration and Development
IS - 2
ER -