Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs

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Not planning but way-finding: critical strategic thinking for Southern NGOs

“…It enables Southern NGOs to overcome the limitations of SP while reducing organizational resource dependence and preserving autonomy. It thus strengthens the line of research seen in Kohnert (2004) and Chakrabarty et al (2017). This paper also contributes to critical management at large by responding to the calls of Voronov et al (2009) and Virpi et al (2013) to produce actionable critical knowledge in the form of providing an example and illustration of strategy as way-finding as a critically informed managerial practice.…”

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“…Taking a cue from this critical scholarship, non-profit research is now questioning the rationality and certainty assumptions underlying SP approach to strategic thinking (Kohnert, 2004; Chakrabarty et al , 2017). Kohnert (2004, p. 1) contends that “the underlying vision of rationality as a remedy for the major ills of development aid was in itself a fallacy. A major change in the methodology of planning, [is needed,] closely connected […] to development cooperation […] towards supporting the socio-cultural and political environment of the recipient communities […]”.…”

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“…Concerning authoritarian political systems, many donors prefer to give aid to civic groups, but whether these act in general more efficiently than state institutions is questionable (Kohnert 2004a). The Paris Declaration of 2005, the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) and the "Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation" (2011) were important steps to make aid more efficient by a better coordination and harmonization of donor policies (Davies & Klasen 2013), meant last but not least to reduce the risk of elite capture (Bigsten & Tengstam 2015:75).…”