Management and Planning for Development. A Transregional Perspective (1950-1990)
The Emmy Noether-Group analyzes management knowledge in economic development projects in socialist Eastern Europe and in countries of the ‘Global South’ from the 1950s to the 1980s. We are interested in how management knowledge was produced, used and interpreted in socialist command economies and in developing economies – and thus beyond the common focus on the capitalist North.
The group comprises three studies, which analyze development projects in the GDR, China, Poland and Nigeria. The case studies allow for studying managerial practices and discourses on the micro level and they will uncover new relations between management and planning. Management and planning have long been treated as opposing poles along the dividing line of market and state. Instead, we are studying management and planning in an entangled perspective. We do so by choosing a transregional and a history of knowledge approach.
We are hoping to contribute to understanding the emergence of our contemporary liberal economic world order as a heterogeneous, contested and multipolar process.
Please contact us if you are interested in our work. We are looking forward to hearing from you.