The Experts below are selected from a list of 1734615 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform

Hazel Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Means–Ends Debate In Development Management: Introduction To The Special Issue
    Journal of International Development, 2012
    Co-Authors: Willy Mccourt, Hazel Johnson
    Abstract:

    The relationship between ends and means has become increasingly fraught in Development Management, as arguments that Development Management should take the side of the poor have come to the fore. This introduction reviews the contributions to the Special Issue in terms of Development Management's legitimacy and viability. It concludes that an emancipatory Development Management is possible if managers opt to use the constrained autonomy which is always available to them. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • ENGAGEMENT, LEARNING AND EMANCIPATORY Development Management: A COMMENTARY
    Journal of International Development, 2012
    Co-Authors: Hazel Johnson, Richard Pinder, Gordon Wilson
    Abstract:

    Complex and constantly emerging relationships between groups, organisations and movements aiming to promote and manage change bring into sharp focus the nature of means and ends and how they interact. Development managers are continually negotiating these relationships, where the tools (the means) and the espoused goals of Development (the ends) are caught up in the process. We argue that although it is essential to recognise the role of power relations in Development Management, social difference and contestation experienced in the negotiation of changing relationships can create spaces and be important sources of engagement and learning for Development managers and their organisations. A question is whether and how such learning can lead to more emancipatory means and ends of Development Management, rather than simply consolidating existing social relations. In this article, we provide a commentary on these issues through interviews with a small group of practitioners working mainly in non-governmental organisations.

  • Beyond means and ends: learning, engagement and towards an emancipatory Development Management
    2011
    Co-Authors: Hazel Johnson, Richard Pinder, Gordon Wilson
    Abstract:

    Means and ends, and how they interact, need to be considered in the context of the complex and constantly emerging relationships between groups, organisations and movements aiming to promote and manage change. These relationships are continually negotiated, and both the tools of Development Management (the means) and the espoused goals of Development (the ends) are caught up in this process. We argue that it essential to recognise the role of power relations in Development Management, however social difference and contestation experienced in the negotiation of changing relationships can be important sources of learning for Development managers and their organisations. A question is whether and how such learning can lead to more emancipatory means and ends of Development Management (that go beyond organisations), rather than consolidating existing social relations. In this paper, we examine these issues through the lens of practitioners and professionals who have undertaken postgraduate studies in Development Management. A particular question for educationalists is whether they can promote learning and engagement towards emancipatory approaches in a context of huge global economic and political change.

  • Guest editors' introduction: Development Management in practice
    Development in Practice, 1999
    Co-Authors: Tom Hewitt, Hazel Johnson
    Abstract:

    Focuses on applied Development Management. Role of value-based conflicts in Development Management; Emphases on Capacities for Managing Development and Institutional Development; Importance of negotiation over Development policy.

B. Bowonder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Software Development Management: critical success factors
    International Journal of Technology Management, 2000
    Co-Authors: Ashish Hosalkar, B. Bowonder
    Abstract:

    Software risk assessment has become an integral part of software quality Management. The pressure to reduce software Development cycle time is inducing firms to adopt an anticipate and prevent approach to software Development failures. There are four classes of software Development projects, namely conversion projects, client specific projects, packaged software and enterprise system software. The critical success factors for each of these classes differ widely as the user requirements are different. The software Development Management has to consider the specific aspects while conceptualising and developing software.

Nilima Gulrajani - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Theorizing the Political Factor in International Development Management
    Executive Politics in Times of Crisis, 2012
    Co-Authors: Nilima Gulrajani
    Abstract:

    To the extent that executive politics is a commitment to the systematic study of politics in administrative settings (Lodge and Wegrich, Chapter 1, this volume), its contribution to understanding dynamics in the field of international Development Management is almost guaranteed. This is due to the relatively poor theorization of the political factor within the administrative settings of developing countries1 and, relatedly, international foreign aid. Long-standing controversies over the appropriate relationship between planning and political functions in international Development have usually privileged the former over the latter.

  • New vistas for Development Management: examining radical-reformist possibilities and potential
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2010
    Co-Authors: Nilima Gulrajani
    Abstract:

    This article provides an overview of contemporary Development Management scholarship, suggesting that a longstanding division between radical and reformist Development Management research continues to exist. The article offers a closer examination of critical Development Management (CDM), the most recent example of radical Development Management thought that is connecting scholars in critical Management studies to those identifying with post-Development theory. CDM's suggestion that all Development Management is perniciously managerial is scrutinised and challenged on both theoretical and normative grounds. Overall, an argument is sketched out to support a future for Development Management that is neither defined nor destined for failure. The future of Development Management scholarship can and should concern itself with a non-managerial Development practice that bridges the divide between radicals and reformers.

  • New vistas for Development Management: Examining radical–reformist possibilities and potential
    Public Administration and Development, 2010
    Co-Authors: Nilima Gulrajani
    Abstract:

    This article provides an overview of contemporary Development Management scholarship, suggesting that a longstanding division between radical and reformist Development Management research continues to exist. The article offers a closer examination of critical Development Management (CDM), the most recent example of radical Development Management thought that is connecting scholars in critical Management studies to those identifying with post‐Development theory. CDM's suggestion that all Development Management is perniciously managerial is scrutinised and challenged on both theoretical and normative grounds. Overall, an argument is sketched out to support a future for Development Management that is neither defined nor destined for failure. The future of Development Management scholarship can and should concern itself with a non‐managerial Development practice that bridges the divide between radicals and reformers. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • The future of Development Management: examining possibilities and potential
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2009
    Co-Authors: Nilima Gulrajani
    Abstract:

    Critical Development Management (CDM) is an emerging field of study that is ‘questioning Development Management’ by connecting scholars in critical Management studies to those identifying with post-Development theory. Development Management is an object of criticism for CDM, where this critical analysis derives from the perniciousness and pervasiveness of managerialism in aid interventions. This paper provides an overview of CDM and takes issue with this exclusively managerialist understanding of Development Management. I offer a more positive vision for the future, one where the aid industry can believe in the ability of generating improved livelihoods without the wholehearted import of managerialism as well as the desirability of radical reform. A theoretical argument is sketched out to support a future for Development that is neither defined nor destined for failure.

Ashish Hosalkar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Software Development Management: critical success factors
    International Journal of Technology Management, 2000
    Co-Authors: Ashish Hosalkar, B. Bowonder
    Abstract:

    Software risk assessment has become an integral part of software quality Management. The pressure to reduce software Development cycle time is inducing firms to adopt an anticipate and prevent approach to software Development failures. There are four classes of software Development projects, namely conversion projects, client specific projects, packaged software and enterprise system software. The critical success factors for each of these classes differ widely as the user requirements are different. The software Development Management has to consider the specific aspects while conceptualising and developing software.

Alan Thomas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Development Management—values and partnerships
    Journal of International Development, 2007
    Co-Authors: Alan Thomas
    Abstract:

    Values and multi-organization partnerships are two crucial aspects of the contested field of Development Management. Their Management crucially involves questions of authority, accountability, agency and validity. This Policy Arena includes two pairs of papers, one addressing the Management of values and partnerships respectively in the context of NGOs and the second pair doing the same with respect to Development Management more broadly. They show that partnerships and values have in common that they cannot be managed by the imposition of a rationally defined programme of action but require indirect approaches such as steering, negotiation and looking for common ground. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • What makes good Development Management
    Development in Practice, 1999
    Co-Authors: Alan Thomas
    Abstract:

    In a previous paper published in 1996, the author gave two views of Development Management. One was Management in the context of Development as historical change. The other was the Management of deliberate efforts at progress, of Development tasks. This paper adds a third: a style of Management with a Development orientation, that is, an orientation towards progressive change. It is argued that this third view allows for a normative definition of Development Management. Thus a distinctive notion of what is good Development Management is that it should consistently promote the values of Development at all levels, even if this is not the most straightforward way of getting particular Development tasks done successfully.

  • What is Development Management
    Journal of International Development, 1996
    Co-Authors: Alan Thomas
    Abstract:

    What is distinctive about Development Management? This paper first discusses different views of Development and Management separately, and goes on to characterize Development Management both as Management in the context of Development as a long-term historical process and as the Management of deliberate efforts at progress by means of intervention in the social change process on the part of a variety of agencies. Thus Development Management should be thought of in terms of process and is distinctive in aiming at social goals external to any particular organization in the context of value-based conflicts. The paper concludes with a list of conceptual and skill areas which this view implies are important to Development Management as a new academic and professional field.