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Andrews, Matt - 2013

Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining...

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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda

Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...

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Explaining positive deviance in public sector reforms in development

Andrews, Matt - 2013

Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories...

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How do governments become great? Ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda

Andrews, Matt - 2013

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....

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Does successful governance require heroes? The case of Sergio Fajardo and the city of Medellín: A reform case for instruction

Fajardo, Alejandro; Andrews, Matt - 2014

abridged version of the story offers instructors a classroom case to discuss leaders and leadership in governance reform. …

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Can one retell a Mozambican reform story through problem-driven iterative adaptation?

Andrews, Matt - 2014

Many public sector reforms in developing countries fail to make governments more functional. This is typically because reforms introduce new solutions that do not fit the contexts in which they are being placed. This situation reflects what has recently been called the 'capability trap' in...

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Competitive Markets, Corporate Firms, and NewGovernance - An Ordonomic Conceptualization

Pies, Ingo; Beckmann, Markus; Hielscher, Stefan - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2009

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenshipand new governance … that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining thepolitical participation of companies in new governance processes … ethicsof new governance holds that companies can act not only as economic actors but also participateas political and moral …

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