Public Administration and The Managerialist Fervour For Values and Ethics: Of Collective Confusion in Control Societies

Rouillard, Christian; Giroux, Dalie

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“…Many organization studies scholars have adopted a critical approach. Some denounce the underlying assumptions about human behaviors on which this applied toolbox is based and list their consequences for the provision of public service and the delivery of public goods (Balfour & Grubbs, 2000;Overeem & Tholen, 2011;Rouillard & Giroux, 2005). Others suggest that in real practice the operational solutions such tools are supposed to provide are not enforced, if not enforceable.…”

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Since the late 1990s social science-based studies have allocated much less attention to public organizations. Based on the sixth Organization Studies summer workshop, this introductory paper suggests a diagnosis of such a decline as well as a research agenda. It lists some fundamental issues still to be explored such as publicness and governance. It also considers how social science-based organizational knowledge might be extended to various empirical objects and fields in public domains and set-ups such as inter-organizational arrangements, hybrid organizations, multi-stakeholder arenas, hybrid organizing, and transnationalization processes, that usually are covered by scholars -economists, historians, anthropologists, management academics, etc. -who are not using organizational theory lenses.

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“…This is because of the politically and ideologically charged nature of planning and reforms in state and municipal organizations-as studies of community politics (Forester, 1989;Rakow et al, 2003) and New Public Management (Ferlie et al, 1996;Hood, 1991) have illustrated. In particular, recent reforms have tended to either replace bureaucratic values and practices with post-bureaucratic ones (Clegg and Courpasson, 2004, du Gay, 2000 or strengthen the role of managerialism (Rouillard and Giroux, 2005), which has led to the overall promotion of neo-liberal ideology in public service (Fairclough, 1995(Fairclough, , 2003. Importantly for our purposes, these changes have often been linked with the introduction of business sector strategic planning practices into public sector decision-making.…”

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On the force potential of strategy texts: a critical discourse analysis of a strategic plan and its power effects in a city organization

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Despite increasing interest in the discursive aspects of strategy, few studies have examined strategy texts and their power effects. We draw from Critical Discourse Analysis to better understand the power of strategic plans as a directive genre. In our empirical analysis, we examined the creation of the official strategic plan of the City of Lahti in Finland. As a result of our inductive analysis, we identified five central discursive features of this plan: self-authorization, special terminology, discursive innovation, forced consensus and deonticity. We argue that these features can, with due caution, be generalized and conceived as distinctive features of the strategy genre. We maintain that these discursive features are not trivial characteristics; they have important implications for the textual agency of strategic plans, their performative effects, impact on power relations and ideological implications.

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“…Perhaps the most impressive engagement is Peter Triantafillou's (2004Triantafillou's ( , 2007Triantafillou's ( , 2011 extensive and multifaceted exploration. No doubt I am missing other important contributions, as I have admittedly confined this brief survey to public administration rather narrowly and parochially defined (see also Abel & Sementelli, 2002;Cawley, 2001;Farmer, 1995aFarmer, , 1995bFisher, 1992;Hummel, 2008;Maynard-Mooney & Musheno, 2000;McBeth & Clemons, 1999;McSwain & White, 1992;Miller & Fox, 2006;Mooney Nickel, 2007;Rouillard & Giroux, 2005;Sørensen & Torfing, 2007;Spicer, 2001;Stivers, 2008;Witt & deHaven-Smith, 2008).…”

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Public Administration and The Managerialist Fervour For Values and Ethics: Of Collective Confusion in Control Societies

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