The Managing of the (Third) World

This paper is about the relationship between management, a First World discipline, and the Third World. Management is widely assumed to apply in organizations in modern, or postmodern, societies. However, a distinctive form of management, Development Administration and Management (DAM), exists and i...

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Published in:Organization (London, England) England), 2004-09, Vol.11 (5), p.603-629
Main Author: Cooke, Bill
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business management
Business studies
Democracy
Developing countries
Development administration
International relations
LDCs
Liberalism
Management theory
Managers
Manycountries
Modernity
Modernization
Neoliberalism
Organization studies
Organization theory
Organizational behaviour
Public administration
Public management
Studies
World Bank
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Summary:This paper is about the relationship between management, a First World discipline, and the Third World. Management is widely assumed to apply in organizations in modern, or postmodern, societies. However, a distinctive form of management, Development Administration and Management (DAM), exists and is applied to Third World nation-states, which are deemed in the First World to require modernization. This article sets out the institutional and conceptual separation and crossover between management and DAM. It then goes on to consider DAM in practice, demonstrating how it, and through it management, are complicit in neo-liberal World Bank interventions in the Third World. It concludes by reviewing the implications of the status of DAM, and management, as direct instruments of national-level neo-liberal change.
ISSN:1350-5084
1461-7323
DOI:10.1177/1350508404044063