New vistas for development management: examining radical-reformist possibilities and potential

Nilima Gulrajani

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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.

Keywords: development management; development administration; managerialism; post-developmentalism; aid effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05
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Published in Public Administration and Development, May, 2010, 30(2), pp. 136-148. ISSN: 0271-2075

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