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Historical discourses of public management in Denmark

Past emergence and present challenge

Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, bwr.lpf{at}cbs.dk

The management phenomenon does not simply arise out of nothing. It has emerged against the background of a protracted process that has gradually created the conditions for that which we now refer to as `management'.This ar ticle investigates the construction of the concept of management in the Danish public sector in the 20th century, revealing a transformation of the concept characterized by four different discourses that have rendered management a question of bureaucratic control, efficient rationalization, sectoral planning and, finally, professional management. The article accounts for the par ticular time-dependent conceptions that inform our knowledge of the past and contribute to our understanding of contemporar y semantic possibilities for management. By this means, the ar ticle sheds new light on the emergence of public management from the past and the challenges it faces in the present.

Key Words: discursive constructivism • management • management history • Michel Foucault • Niklas Luhmann • public sector • Reinhardt Koselleck

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