This book draws together research from a range of academic fields to develop a critical and theoretically informed analysis of the projectification of the public sector.

Damian Hodgson is Professor of Organisational Analysis at Alliance Manchester Business School and Co-Director of the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation, University of Manchester, UK.

Mats Fred is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.

Simon Bailey is a researcher at the University of Kent, UK. His interests are in the sociological study of medicine, organisation, learning, and policy.

Patrik Hall is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Policy Pilots as Public Sector Projects: The Projectification of Policy and Research
2. Why is Innovation Policy Projectified? Political Causes in the Case of Sweden
3. Problematising the Project System: Rural Development in Indonesia
4. Public Sector Innovation Projects: Beyond Bureaucracy and Market?
5. In and Out of Amber: the New Zealand Government Major Projects Performance Reporting
6. Project Management in the Shadow of Public Human Services
7. Pilots as Projects: Policy Making in a State of Exception
8. Project Governance in an Embedded State: Opportunities and Challenges
9. The European Dimension of Projectification. Implications of the Project Approach in EU Funding Policy
10. Agents, Techniques, and Tools of Projectification
11. Observing the Process of Culture Projectification and its Agents: A Case Study of Kraków
12. Standardisation and Its Consequences in Health Care: A Case Study of PRINCE2 Project Management Training
13. The Freelance Project Manager as an Agent of Governmentality: Evidence from a UK Local Authority

Notes on Contributors

Index