An Anthropological View of how Organisations Think

Bell, Wendy

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“…Ways of life, also known as worldviews, solidarities, and outlooks, are referred to as rationalities as well. This is significant because each one offers a distinct notion of rationality and what is "rational" (Bell, 1997(Bell, /2017. "Thus, CT simultaneously pluralizes and bounds rationality" (Swedlow, 2014, p. 703).…”

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The Politics of Development in Colombia: Accounting for the Plurality of Development Models

Garcés-Velástegui

2024

Journal of Developing Societies

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Colombia, like other countries in the region, is undergoing a moment of self-definition. At its heart lies the issue of development. The increasing plurality of competing development models and political economies, however, complicates the discursive landscape and defies conventional approaches. To make sense of this complexity, grid group cultural theory and its typology of four irreducible, mutually exclusive, and jointly exhaustive ideal-typical worldviews is proposed. Four distinct development models are identified in Colombia’s recent experience, illustrated by neoliberalism, developmentalism, post-development alternatives such as Buen Vivir and Vivir Sabroso, and a chimera.

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Section: Cultural Theory and Four Development Modelsmentioning

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The Politics of Development in Colombia: Accounting for the Plurality of Development Models

Garcés-Velástegui

2024

Journal of Developing Societies

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“…It follows an interpretivist philosophy of science (Hoppe, 2007). As such, people's beliefs, preferences and even imaginations make up the worldviews that guide our interpretation of the world, construct our meanings of it and contribute to our making sense of it (Bell, 2017). By so doing, they constitute the world as well.…”

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“…Finally, and importantly, these worldviews can also be regarded as rationalities. Since each determines what is deemed 'rational', each quadrant produces one rationality (Bell, 2017). By the same token, a surprise for a worldview might well be within expectations for another.…”

Section: Grid Group Ctmentioning

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Varieties of development: On the plurality of political economies and how to harness it

Velástegui

2023

J of Intl Development

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Development models are disputed in the global South and North, as evidenced by recent protests advancing different desirable social ends and means. The diversity of development ideas suggests it is a wicked problem, requiring clumsy solutions. Employing grid group cultural theory, this article elucidates that plurality and indicates ways to harness it. Four irreducible, ideal‐typical notions of development are found: market‐led individual prosperity, state‐led system‐wide welfare, alternatives of community‐led equal welfare with ecological conservation and a mirage. Clumsy development models secure legitimacy and effectiveness by engaging all worldviews, including their distinct pathways to clumsiness or messy institutions.

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An Investigation of the Ethnography of Knowledge through an Organisational Ethnography of ActewAGL

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2005

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An Anthropological View of how Organisations Think

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The Politics of Development in Colombia: Accounting for the Plurality of Development Models

The Politics of Development in Colombia: Accounting for the Plurality of Development Models

Varieties of development: On the plurality of political economies and how to harness it

An Investigation of the Ethnography of Knowledge through an Organisational Ethnography of ActewAGL

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