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Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs - The In-Between Advantage (Hardcover)
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Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs - The In-Between Advantage (Hardcover)
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Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally
accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver
lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection
to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for
institutional reform, which links problem understanding with
potential solutions, and encompasses vision, impact, operational,
and psycho-social advantages. Individuals with entrepreneurial
characteristics can catalyzing institutional reform. Diasporans may
have particular advantages for entrepreneurship, as they live both
psychologically and materially between the place of origin they
left and the new destination they have embraced. Their
entrepreneurial characteristics may be accidental, cultivated
through the migration and diaspora experience, or innate to
individuals' personalities. This book articulates the diaspora
institutional entrepreneur In-Between Advantage, proposes a model
for understanding the characteristics and motivational influences
of entrepreneurs generally and how they apply to diaspora
entrepreneurs in particular, and presents a staged model of
institutional entrepreneur actions. I test these frameworks through
case narratives of social institutional reform in Egypt, economic
institutional reform in Ethiopia, and political institutional
reform in Chad. In addition to identifying policy implications,
this book makes important theoretical contributions in three areas.
First, it builds on existing and emerging critiques of
international development assistance that articulate prescriptions
related to alternative theories of change. Second, it fills an
important gap in the literature by focusing squarely on the role of
agency in institutional reform processes while still accounting for
organizational systems and socio-political contexts. In doing so,
it integrates a more expansive view of entrepreneurism into extant
understandings of institutional entrepreneurism, and it sheds light
on what happens in the frequently-invoked black box of agency.
Third, it demonstrates the fallacy of many theoretical frameworks
that seek to order institutional change processes into neatly
definable linear stages.
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