LEADER 04016nam 2200553I 450 001 9910838302903321 005 20241205105805.0 010 $a9781801173742 010 $a1801173745 035 $a(CKB)30764462000041 035 $a(UtOrBLW)9781801173766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31135063 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31135063 035 $a(OCoLC)1438991750 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930764462000041 100 $a20240321h20242024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aObsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy? $ecoping with uncertainty in development aid relations /$fSusanna Alexius (Stockholm Center for Organizational Research (Score), Sweden), Janet Va?ha?ma?ki (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden) 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBingley, U.K. :$cEmerald Publishing Limited,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024 215 $a1 online resource (204 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781801173773 311 08$a180117377X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aChapter 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 expose? 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? 330 $aThe 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 Va?ha?ma?ki 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. 606 $aBureaucracy 606 $aManagement 606 $aBusiness & Economics$xManagement$2bisacsh 606 $aManagement and management techniques$2thema 615 0$aBureaucracy. 615 0$aManagement. 615 7$aBusiness & Economics$xManagement. 615 7$aManagement and management techniques. 676 $a658 700 $aAlexius$b Susanna$f1976-$01776814 702 $aVa?ha?ma?ki$b Janet 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838302903321 996 $aObsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy$94295953 997 $aUNINA