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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2024.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1108/9781801173742 |
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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?