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High-quality implementation of foreign aid interventions sometimes requires employee use of contextual information that will be precluded by tight management control. Drawing from over 130 interviews and statistical analysis of a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects, Honig fin...

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Main Author:	Honig, Dan, 1981- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Economic assistance > Developing countries. Economic development projects > Developing countries > Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General. Economic assistance Economic development projects > Management Developing countries Electronic books.
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Summary:	High-quality implementation of foreign aid interventions sometimes requires employee use of contextual information that will be precluded by tight management control. Drawing from over 130 interviews and statistical analysis of a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects, Honig finds that top-down controls sometimes undermine development project success.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780190672461 0190672463 9780190672485 019067248X 9780190672478 0190672471
DOI:	10.1093/oso/9780190672454.001.0001