Living with Paradox in International Development: An Extended Case Study of an International NGO

Wadham, Helen; Urquhart, Christine; Warren, Richard

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“…Gupta et al 2015;Cabral 2016;Osei-Amponsah et al 2018;Pansera and Owen 2018), their implications for innovation practises and social inclusion need to be examined. Empirical studies in Gambia has revealed that development actors, including farmers are often aware of the contradictions between various narratives and interests that guide agricultural policy and development (Wadham et al 2019). Usually, actors try to accommodate other existing narratives within their own narratives to avoid conflict (Osei-Amponsah et al 2018).…”

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The Hybridity of Inclusive Innovation Narratives Between Theory and Practice: A Framing Analysis

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Inclusive innovation remains an under-conceptualised and ambiguous concept despite garnering political and academic interest in recent decades. This paper explores the narratives of inclusive innovation that exist in literature and how these are framed in practice, using a case study of the Kenyan agricultural sector. Findings indicate that while there is significant similarity between the theoretical and empirical framing of the concept, there are also stark differences. In addition, different actors such as the state, development agencies, the private sector or universities do not fully ascribe to any of the existing theoretical narratives on inclusive innovation. Instead, they frame it based on their own contexts, mandate and interests using concepts borrowed from existing theoretical narratives. This indicates that instead of a grand theory of inclusive innovation that applies universally, there are several ways of enacting inclusive innovation. This also limits the transferability of a onesize-fits-all model of inclusive innovation.

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“…The Hybridity of Inclusive Innovation Narratives between Theory and Practice 73 3 social inclusion need to be examined. Empirical studies in Gambia has revealed that development actors, including farmers are often aware of the contradictions between various narratives and interests that guide agricultural policy and development (Wadham, Urquhart and Warren, 2019). Usually, actors try to accommodate other existing narratives within their own narratives to avoid conflict (Osei-Amponsah, van Paassen and .…”

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Critical perspectives on the support of inclusive agricultural innovation in Kenya

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This chapter reviews the history and current landscape of the agricultural innovation system in Kenya and how this relates to issues of social inclusion and exclusion. It employs a document analysis of historical records and key policy documents and government legislations in Kenya. I find that smallholder farmers in rural Kenya emerged as an important interest group of marginalised actors since they were excluded from state driven research, innovation, agricultural extension, and other forms of support to farmers. This group remain a significant target group for policies and practises on inclusive agricultural innovation and development. I also find that inclusive innovation can emerge as a goal aimed for by actors such as the state as a result of unplanned and unexpected events that forces these actors to react in a certain way. Table 2.1. History of national agricultural research and development in Kenya Historical period Key events and state of agricultural innovation Status of agricultural education, research, and extensio Key technological and institutional innovations that emerged

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Kurumsal Çözülme Süreci̇ndeki̇ Aktör Eylemleri̇ Üzeri̇ne Bi̇r Araştima: Türki̇ye Li̇man Endüstri̇si̇nde Kurumsal Gi̇ri̇şi̇mci̇ler

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2021

Journal of Research in Business

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Researches, in which the state is the subject, considering the power of the state to enact and enforce laws, reveal results that delimit other institutional entrepreneurs in the field and often restrict them in favor of its interests. The purpose of this study is to explain the change, created in a specific organizational field by privatization that is implemented as a policy transfer in which the main actor is the state as a political entrepreneur, by focusing on the actions and strategies of institutional entrepreneurs. For this purpose, in the second part of the study, a theoretical framework is set up by explaining the theoretical approaches and concepts that form the basis of the research, and the theoretical arguments of the research are given by this framework. In the third part, the historical process and application areas of privatization practice about policy transfer are summarized and information is given about the privatization practices in the port industry of Turkey, which constitutes the organizational field of the research. In the fourth part, which comprises the methodological structure of the research, the process of the research method to collect data and to test the theoretical arguments is detailed, by providing the importance, limitations, contribution of the study, the research question, and the presentation of the findings. In the last part called "Discussion and Conclusion", the theoretical arguments of the research are discussed in the light of the findings, contributions are presented and suggestions for future research are listed. At this point, the research is considered to have two main theoretical contributions. The first one aims to fill a theoretical gap by claiming that institutional entrepreneurs create new actor groups that are expected to support them to create a change in the field. The second one intends to make a conceptual contribution to institutional entrepreneurship and institutional work literature by analyzing the actions taken by institutional entrepreneurs during the institutional disrupting process.

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Living with Paradox in International Development: An Extended Case Study of an International NGO

Cited by 3 publications

References 54 publications

The Hybridity of Inclusive Innovation Narratives Between Theory and Practice: A Framing Analysis

The Hybridity of Inclusive Innovation Narratives Between Theory and Practice: A Framing Analysis

Critical perspectives on the support of inclusive agricultural innovation in Kenya

Kurumsal Çözülme Süreci̇ndeki̇ Aktör Eylemleri̇ Üzeri̇ne Bi̇r Araştima: Türki̇ye Li̇man Endüstri̇si̇nde Kurumsal Gi̇ri̇şi̇mci̇ler

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