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Duality by Design: The Global Race to Build Africa''s Infrastructure

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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. See more
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  • Weight: 830g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2019
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781108473163

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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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