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Institutions, Resources, and Organizational Effectiveness in Africa
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In this paper, the authors argue that Africa-focused management research may address the major problem of organizational effectiveness through work on the two major theoretical building blocks: institutions and resources, and they discuss the interactive processes within each of the two building blocks and the transformational mechanisms that link each theory and organizational effectiveness in the African context.Abstract:
While management research has made significant progress in globalizing its reach, African organizations have remained a missing link. We argue that Africa-focused management research may address the major problem of organizational effectiveness through work on the two major theoretical building blocks: institutions and resources. Building a model of organizational effectiveness in Africa, this article discusses the interactive processes within each of the two building blocks and the transformational mechanisms that link each theory and organizational effectiveness in the African context.read more
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
TL;DR: Douglass C. North as discussed by the authors developed an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
Douglass C. North,John Alt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic institutions explains the differential performance of economies through time.
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Institutions and Organizations
TL;DR: Early Institutionalists Constructed an Analytic Framework I Three Pillars of Institutions Constructing an Analytical Framework II Content, Agency, Carriers and Levels Institutional Construction, Maintenance and Diffusion Institutional Processes Affecting Societal Systems, Organizational Fields, and Organizational Populations Institutional processes Affecting Organizational Structure and Performance Institutional Change Looking Back, Looking Forward
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Strategic responses to institutional processes
TL;DR: The authors applied the convergent insights of institutional and resource dependence perspectives to the prediction of strategic responses to institutional processes, and proposed a typology of strategies that vary in active organizational resistance from passive conformity to proactive manipulation.
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Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration
TL;DR: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established by agreement of more than 120 economies, with almost all the rest eager to join as rapidly as possible as mentioned in this paper, and the agreement included a codification of basic principles governing trade in goods and services.