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COMMUNICATION | The contributions of Dewey-style pragmatist philosophy to the study of territorial collaborative projects. The case of intensive democracy spaces - AGRH

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ABSTRACT

This paper is part of the "Territoires, Réseaux, InnovationS et inclusionS" track of the AGRH 2020 congress, whose key theme is inclusion.
We propose to provide some answers to the track's questions, based on a Horizon 2020 research project currently underway. COGOV (Co Production and CoGovernance: Strategic Management, Public Value and Co Creation in the Renewal of Public Agencies across Europe) is an h2020 project that aims to study strategic renewal practices post New Public Management.

These practices focus on the inclusion of stakeholders in the strategic approaches of organizations operating in the public sphere. As such, public management not only corresponds to the management of public organizations and policies (Bartoli, 1997), but also includes
organizations that contribute to the general interest. More specifically, this project studies practices on a territorial scale insofar as it constitutes a stratum for analyzing the inclusion and participation of relevant stakeholders (Rochette et al., 2016; Zumbo-Lebrument, 2017; Soldo, 2018).
While the study of territories in a post-New Public Management movement is beginning to gain some traction, the fact remains that it suffers from a lack of operationalization in research. As such, this paper proposes to answer the following question: how can we analyze territorial collaborative projects?

Paper presented at a peer-reviewed conference - AGRH 2020 - March 3 to 5, 2023, Tours, France

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Laura CARMOUZE, Deputy Director of the Attractiveness and New Territorial Marketing Chair (A&NMT) - laura.carmouze@univ-amu.fr

Edina SOLDO, University Professor at the Institute of Public Management and Territorial Governance (IMPGT) - edina.soldo@univ-amu.fr

Djelloul AREZKI, Senior Lecturer in Management Sciences at the Institut de Management Public et Gouvernance Territoriale (IMPGT) - djelloul.arezki@univ-amu.fr