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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Biygautane, Mhamed
• Micelotta, Evelyn
• Gabbioneta, Claudia
• Cappellaro, Giulia

Titel

In the Land of Sand and Oil: How the Macrofoundations of a Tribal Society Shape the Implementation of Public–Private Partnerships

Ist Teil von

• Macrofoundations: Exploring the Institutionally Situated Nature of Activity, 2020, Vol.68, p.67-96

Ort / Verlag

Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Research on institutional logics has missed the opportunity to understand how and why societies may fundamentally differ in their material and symbolic systems. In this chapter, the authors offer a qualitative examination of the implementation of infrastructure public–private partnership (PPP) projects in the Arab state of Qatar. The authors illustrate how the macrofoundations of Qatari society are rooted in the notion of tribe, an inter-institutional system under which the intertwined institutional orders of the state, the market, and the family have historically developed and operated. Their study sheds light on how these macrofoundations shape the processes and mechanisms that underpin the resistance to the introduction of innovative organizational forms. The chapter makes two contributions. First, it identifies how “foreign” organizational forms rooted in Western institutional orders trigger adverse reactions from societies characterized by different institutional orders. Second, it demonstrates the challenge of implementing PPPs in an institutional context that is unfavorable to them and where actors seek to preserve the supremacy of the extant inter-institutional system.