Institutional Environment Pressures Perceived by Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency's Constituents

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Public organisations have rarely been the subjects of neo-institutional research. Intra-organisational behaviour has also been under-researched. This study examined how four distinct groups of Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency's staff perceive institutional environment pressures from home and host countries. One-hundred thirty-one valid responses obtained through an online survey were analysed. Staff in both the headquarters and overseas offices felt a powerful home country accountability pressure. This tendency is prominent for management staff. The test results, as seen through the lens of a neo-institutional perspective, suggest that overseas office staff prioritise accountability to home country stakeholders over that to host country stakeholders.

This is a close review of Working Paper No. 228 “Perceived Home and Host Country Institutional Environment Pressures by Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency’s Constituents,” published in March 2022 as part of the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development’s “Countermeasures to Institutional Duality: Cases of Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency’s Overseas Offices” project. The paper was published in Public Organization Review (Springer Nature) in November 2022. This is an open access paper available at the following link.

Author
Fushimi Katsutoshi
Date of issuance
November 2022
Language
English
Number of pages
19 page