NGOs and the globalization of managerialism: A research framework

Roberts, Sidney; Jones, John Paul; Fröhling, Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.07.004

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“…At least three different positions on the possibility and desirability of diffusion can be identified (see Lewis 2007;Segnestam Larsson 2013), two of which explicitly challenge the assumption that social innovations easily can be diffused to other cities and local contexts. The first is the view that suggests that the transfer of best practices among different kinds of local contexts and organisations is easy and desirable (Herman and Renz 1999;Roberts et al 2005;Shoham et al 2006). This view has been disproven already (see the previous chapter), and the WILCO evidence only serves to underline this.…”

Section: Inflated Expectations Of Diffusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side

Larsson

Brandsen

2015

Social Innovations in the Urban Context

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Section: Inflated Expectations Of Diffusionmentioning

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The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side

Larsson

Brandsen

2015

Social Innovations in the Urban Context

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“…That is, civil society is both an ideal to be achieved as well as an empirical category describing the actual work of various NGOs, intergovernmental agencies, and other organizations. The transnational networks that constitute civil society are difficult to untangle both analytically and conceptually due to the impenetrably high degree of interconnection (Roberts et al, 2005). Numerous relationships emerge within networks, including horizontal solidarities between grassroots organizations and vertical integration of local organizations within international NGOs.…”

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“…It is the disparity in resources that has led many to raise doubts about the ability of local NGOs to set their own agendas and pursue their own interests in the face of international donor dominance. However, despite the uneven distribution of connections throughout a network, Roberts et al (2005) find that the network metaphor is still analytically useful in disrupting hierarchical models of relations that imagine a unidirectional 'top down' flow of information, funding, and influence. Through meetings, trainings, conferences, and reports, knowledge has the potential to travel from project-oriented NGOs to international NGOs and donors, shifting their priorities and procedures.…”

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“…Through meetings, trainings, conferences, and reports, knowledge has the potential to travel from project-oriented NGOs to international NGOs and donors, shifting their priorities and procedures. From this perspective, civil society actors are not 'endpoints,' but nodes situated in a network with relative degrees of influence, connectedness, and autonomy (Roberts et al, 2005(Roberts et al, , p. 1848.…”

Section: Civil Society Networkmentioning

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Mapping civil society with social network analysis: Methodological possibilities and limitations

Marshall

Staeheli

2015

Geoforum

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(2015) 'Mapping civil society with social network analysis : methodological possibilities and limitations. ', Geoforum.,[61][62][63][64][65][66] Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum. 2015.02.015 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Geoforum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Geoforum, 61, May 2015, 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.015. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This paper explores the possibility of using social network analysis and visualization as a tool for qualitative research in human geography. The approach uses formal network analysis in concert with ethnographic research methods. Specifically, we take a performative approach to network analysis that sees network visualization as a process that produces space for research. Using networks of civil society organisations as our example, this paper highlights the debates over what social network analysis allows and omits, focusing in particular on issues related to flows, power, boundary demarcation and abstraction. From a methodological perspective, much can be lost when the conceptual and theoretical arguments about networks are applied to the material and embodied practices that constitute network relations. Nevertheless, the formal analysis of such networks can provide a representation of relationships at a moment in time that can help to both express those relationships and to open new questions that can be explored using other methods. Just as abstraction is used in an iterative process to move between empirical evidence and conceptual and theoretical arguments, the representation of networks can be part of a methodological approach that moves between the representation of relationships and the ways that various agents express, experience, and remake those relationships. Using the example of research on NGOs and civil society organisations promoting citizenship for young people in divided societies, we explore the utility-and limitations-of working in the liminal space of formal network analysis and more ethnographic approaches.

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“…One discourse can be characterized as 'managerialist' (see, for example, Parker, 2002;Pollitt, 1993;Roberts, Jones, & Fröhling, 2005). Its leading organizational metaphor is that of a business enterprise that produces goods and services for customers.…”

Section: Managerialist Discoursementioning

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Managerialism and Beyond: Discourses of Civil Society Organization and Their Governance Implications

Maier

Meyer

2011

Voluntas

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Different disciplinary, theoretical, and empirical lenses have contributed to a kaleidoscopic picture of CSO governance. Most of the time, CSO governance is contrasted with corporate governance in business organizations; only rarely is the broad variety of CSOs taken into account. To widen this perspective, we develop an empirically grounded typology of five discourses of organization in CSOs: managerialist, domestic, professionalist, grassroots, and civic discourse. We argue that each of these discourses gives specific answers to the three core questions of governance: To whom is the CSO accountable, i.e., who are the key actors who need to be protected by governance mechanisms? For what kind of performance is the CSO accountable? And which structures and processes are appropriate to ensure accountability? The way in which different discourses answer these questions provides us with a deeper understanding of the reasons behind the manifold notions of governance in CSOs.2

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NGOs and the globalization of managerialism: A research framework

Cited by 153 publications

References 80 publications

The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side

The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side

Mapping civil society with social network analysis: Methodological possibilities and limitations

Managerialism and Beyond: Discourses of Civil Society Organization and Their Governance Implications

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