Towards the Understanding of Development Policy Failures through the eyes of Management and Organisational theories: Research Agenda

Aminu Mamman and Christopher J. Rees

Abstract

It is widely acknowledged by researchers and practitioners that development policies particularly in Africa have not delivered the desirable outcomes. This has been largely attributed to the inadequate attention paid to policy implementation. To address the issues of implementation, the paper argues that organizational and management theories can advance our understanding of why good policies do not deliver desirable outcomes. Therefore, the paper outlines the current gap in the literature on development in general and poverty reduction strategy in particular. It highlighted that, because much of the research on Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) have been undertaken at institutional rather than at organizational level, the issue of implementation of poverty reduction interventions has been neglected. The paper also demonstrated that researchers have not taken full advantage of the vast amount of literature in management and organization theory to unravel the complexity of implementing poverty reduction interventions. Therefore, to enable researchers address the issue of implementation, research proposal and research questions have been advanced in the paper to guide future research.

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