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Profilbild på Mats Fred. Foto.

Mats Fred

Biträdande universitetslektor

Profilbild på Mats Fred. Foto.

Projectification in Swedish municipalities. A case of porous organizations

Författare

  • Mats Fred

Summary, in English

This article aims to expand our understanding of projectification in Swedish municipalities. Above all the article explores to what extent processes of projectification can be identified and if so how they unfold. The article draws its inspiration from critical management

studies and uses the notion of sensemaking to identify the practices of projectification processes. Three processes of projectification are used for an illustrative casestudy: municipality’s involvement with EU funded projects ; social investment funds – a new and growing phenomenon of project funding systems within Swedish municipalities;

and project models – standards for how projects should be organized. Projectification, it is argued, contains more than just a lot of projects. It also comprises organizational changes and affects the way employees talk about and understand their ordinary work. Projects are described as a routine in municipal organizations and the routinely based activities in these organizations, it is argued are exposed to projectifying processes. The author argues that describing public organizations as porous is useful and needed, in order to comprise both the flexible and temporary aspects of public organizations, as well as

their more permanent and rigid structures.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

49-68

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration

Volym

19

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

University of Gothenburg, School of Public Administration

Ämne

  • Public Administration Studies

Nyckelord

  • Projectification Porous organization Sensemaking Critical management Public administration

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Collaboration and autonomy in public administration: problem, opportunity, or both?

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2001-7405