GRK 1744: Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy (WIPCAD)

GRK 1744：棘手的问题，有争议的管理：知识、协调、战略 (WIPCAD)

• 批准号: 184453748
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH (WZB)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Training Groups
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/184453748?language=en
• 关键词: GRK; 1744; Wicked; Problems; Contested

Public administrations are expected to be able to cope with problems. Increasingly, many of these are seen both by practitioners and by policy and organisational theorists as "wicked problems". Policy issues ranging from food safety to counter-terrorism, climate change or migration have come to be interpreted as inter-connected, multi-dimensional problem constellations rather than easily identifiable single issues with a clear territorial locus or readily identifiable causal origin. In analytical terms, this type of policy issue is characterised by a combination of simultaneously high levels of complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, with far-reaching repercussions for organisational boundaries, attentiveness and problem-solving capacity. Public administrations today are confronted with unprecedentedly complex tasks across a wide range of issues, requiring sophisticated management skills, complex structures of delegation, discretion, coordination and control, and exceptionally challenging information requirements. As a result, the question of how public administrations can acquire the requisite knowledge, ensure appropriate coordination and devise appropriate strategies has moved to the forefront of debate both for practitioners and in research in the social sciences. The Research Training Groups goal is to foster empirical research into, and theoretical reflection on the interrelationships between wicked problems and contested organisational change in public administrations along the interconnected dimensions of organisational knowledge, coordination and strategy. We ask how policy complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity are handled organisationally, within and across organisations; what factors shape organisational developmental trajectories; and what patterns emerge in terms of substantive change. The Research Training Group especially encourages work that goes beyond the analysis of formal structures and processes. Our research pays attention to individual, organisational and environmental observations; has a comparative dimension - across time, administrative settings, levels, policy fields or, where appropriate, countries; shows theoretical awareness and ambition; and is innovative in the methods employed for qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and interpretation.

公共行政部门应能科普各种问题。越来越多的实践者、政策和组织理论家将其中的许多问题视为“邪恶的问题”。从食品安全到反恐、气候变化或移民等政策问题已被解释为相互关联的多层面问题组合，而不是具有明确地域所在地或容易查明原因的容易查明的单一问题。从分析的角度来看，这类政策问题的特点是同时具有高度的复杂性、不确定性和模糊性，对组织边界、注意力和解决问题的能力产生深远的影响。今天，公共行政部门面临着前所未有的复杂任务，涉及范围广泛的问题，需要先进的管理技能、复杂的授权结构、酌处权、协调和控制以及极具挑战性的信息要求。因此，公共行政部门如何才能获得必要的知识、确保适当的协调和制定适当的战略，这一问题已成为从业人员和社会科学研究人员辩论的焦点。研究培训小组的目标是促进实证研究，并对邪恶的问题和有争议的组织变革之间的相互关系，在公共行政沿着组织知识，协调和战略的相互关联的方面的理论思考。我们问政策的复杂性，不确定性和模糊性是如何处理的组织，内部和跨组织;什么因素塑造组织的发展轨迹;以及什么样的模式出现在实质性的变化。研究培训小组特别鼓励超出正式结构和程序分析的工作。我们的研究关注个人，组织和环境观察;具有比较维度-跨时间，行政环境，级别，政策领域或适当的国家;显示理论意识和雄心;并在定性和定量数据收集，分析和解释的方法中具有创新性。