Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Duality by Design

The Global Race to Build Africa's Infrastructure

Av Nuno Gil, Anne Stafford, Innocent Musonda

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Beskrivning

Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in bridging Africa's basic infrastructure gap to the detriment of institutions building, warnings of a debt trap have followed. Building upon an extensive body of evidence, the editors argue that developing institutions and infrastructure are two equally desirable but organisationally incompatible objectives. In conceptualising this duality by design, a new theoretical framework proposes better understanding of the differing approaches to development espoused by traditional agencies, such as the World Bank, and emergent Chinese agencies. This new framing moves the debate away from the fruitless search for a 'superior' form of organising, and instead suggests looking for complementarities in competing forms of organising for development. For students and researchers in international business, strategic and public management, and complex systems, as well as practitioners in international development and business in emergent markets.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2019-11-28
Mått: 156 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt: 830 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 274
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108473163

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Internationell ekonomi

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Nuno Gil is a Professor of New Infrastructure Development at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), University of Manchester, where he is also the director of the AMBS Infrastructure Development Research Group. Gil's research focus on the design of structures and processes to achieve collective ends. He teaches organisation design and megaproject leadershi and has worked or done research with various organizations including CH2M HILL, Intel, Rolls Royce, BAA (now Heathrow Ltd), BP, Network Rail, London2012, India's DDFCIL, and Nigeria's LAMATA amongst many others. Anne Stafford is Professor of Accounting and Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Her research focuses on financial analysis and evaluation of public policy, particularly in relation to infrastructure governance and accountability. She has researched public and private sector organisations in the UK, Europe, North America and Africa and contributed to submissions to governments, the OECD, the World Bank and other global organisations. Innocent Musonda is a Professor of Construction Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has worked for the public and private sectors in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia. He is founder and director of the Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment (CARINBE) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and chairperson of the DII conference series on infrastructure development and investment in Africa.

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'With a wealth of empirical evidence, this book exposes a fundamental choice underlying infrastructure development in Africa and elsewhere. Western development agencies emphasize institution-building, good governance and transparency with the result that investment is slow. In contrast, Chinese agencies seek to get it done so that investment is quick, but possibly unsustainable. Foreshadows a new era of geopolitics on the African continent.' Carliss Y. Baldwin, Harvard Business School

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