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Management not models: adaptability, responsiveness, and a few lessons from football
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- Maclay, Christopher (Author)
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Management not models: adaptability, responsiveness, and a few lessons from football
Abstract
Despite a swathe of critiques of logframes and other blueprint approaches to development over the last 30 years, most aid infrastructure continues to concentrate on the design and subsequent implementation of closed models. This article does not propose an alternative to blueprints, but challenges the inflexibility of their implementation, which is inadequate given the complex nature of social change. It proposes a supplementary management and learning approach which enables implementers to be dynamic, adaptive, and responsive to problems and opportunities. Emphasising the role of donors, the paper presents a case study of one donor-led programme in Bangladesh doing just this.
Publication
Development in Practice
Volume
25
Issue
1
Pages
42-57
Date
2015-01-02
ISSN
0961-4524
Short Title
Management not models
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05/12/2022, 21:47
Library Catalogue
Taylor and Francis+NEJM
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Publisher: Routledge
_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.983460
Citation
Maclay, C. (2015). Management not models: adaptability, responsiveness, and a few lessons from football. Development in Practice, 25(1), 42–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.983460
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