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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
increasingly technocratic, and that the project organisations
formed in this process offer fragmented and unsustainable
short-term solutions to long-term problems. This volume sets out to
address public sector projectification by drawing together research
from a range of academic fields to develop a critical and
theoretically-informed understanding of the causes, nature, and
consequences of the projectification of the public sector. This
book includes 13 chapters and is organised into three parts. The
first part centres on the politics of projectification,
specifically the role of projects in de-politicisation, often
accomplished by rendering the political "technical". The chapters
in the second part all relate to the reframing of the relationship
between the centre and periphery, or between policy making and
implementation, and the role of temporality in reshaping this
relation. The third and final part brings a focus upon the tools,
techniques, and agents through which public sector projectification
is assembled, constructed, and performed.
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
increasingly technocratic, and that the project organisations
formed in this process offer fragmented and unsustainable
short-term solutions to long-term problems. This volume sets out to
address public sector projectification by drawing together research
from a range of academic fields to develop a critical and
theoretically-informed understanding of the causes, nature, and
consequences of the projectification of the public sector. This
book includes 13 chapters and is organised into three parts. The
first part centres on the politics of projectification,
specifically the role of projects in de-politicisation, often
accomplished by rendering the political "technical". The chapters
in the second part all relate to the reframing of the relationship
between the centre and periphery, or between policy making and
implementation, and the role of temporality in reshaping this
relation. The third and final part brings a focus upon the tools,
techniques, and agents through which public sector projectification
is assembled, constructed, and performed.
This book is about projectification – a concept that captures the
increasing reliance on “the project” in contemporary societies,
governance and economies. Despite its significance, this
development and transformation, not only of public and private
organizations but also our working environment and way of living,
has received little scholarly attention compared to other major
societal movements. Since its conceptualization in 1995 the
phenomena of projectification has grown in scope, and researchers
beyond management and organization studies have argued for and
applied a broader and critical perspective to what projects are and
how we are to understand the term. This volume gathers researchers
who critically examine the function and effects of “the
project”, and analyzes the logic, politics, discursive practices
and contexts of projectification. The book consolidates this
research field by illustrating theoretical perspectives on, and
empirical implications of, projectification. It also highlights the
need for more research, and provides encouragements for other
disciplines to scrutinize this phenomenon from other perspectives.
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