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The discourse of institutional change in the Zambian microfinance sector
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Juliana Siwale --- Nottingham Business School, UK Jonathan Kimmitt --- Newcastle University Business School, UK Bruce LamontThis paper investigates the discourse of key actors instigating institutional change in the Zambian microfinance sector. It draws from the institutional story of Zambia, which has experienced regulatory and legislative flux since drafting its first microfinance act in 2006. Building... -
Tradition and innovation: Between dynamics and tensions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Maria de Fátima Ferreiro --- ISCTE-IUL, Dinamia’CET-IUL, Portugal Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh --- Centre for Studies in Science Policy (CSSP), India Merli Reidolf --- Tallin University of Technology, Estonia Cristina de Sousa --- Univ Portucalense, Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies - REMIT & Dinamia’CET-IUL, Portugal Saradindu Bhaduri --- Centre for Studies in Science Policy (CSSP), IndiaTradition is certainly not new to the domain of innovation research. However, the interplay between the two has attracted less nuanced attention than it should have. Drawing on institutional theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamics... -
Exploring the effects of historical legacies and patronage politics on human resource management in Ghana’s local government
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Mohammed Ibrahim --- Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, UK Farhad Hossain --- Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, UKThis paper examines human resource management (HRM) practices in Ghana's local government and advances a twofold argument. First, it shows that decentralization reforms introduced in the 1980s and 1990s locked the system into a path-dependent governance trajectory. This has narrowed...