How do conflicting logics lead to decoupled activities? Evidence from rural Ghana

Slavova, Mira; Karanasios, Stan

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“…A key strategy among policy-makers in the pursuit of transformation is inclusion of agricultural smallholders in value chains (i.e., people, organizations, and activities needed to create, process, and deliver food products to consumers). Value-chain development is a process associated with improving market access, bridging agronomic knowledge gaps, and realigning farmers' worldviews from traditional identities toward a market orientation (Slavova & Karanasios, 2014).…”

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When Institutional Logics Meet Information and Communication Technologies: Examining Hybrid Information Practices in Ghana’s Agriculture

Slavova¹,

Karanasios²

2018

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In this paper, we describe how changes in the availability of information artifactsin particular, information and communication technologies (ICTs)-among smallholder farmers in Ghana, led to a process of hybridization of information practices, and how this process could be linked to underlying institutional change. We use the notions of institutional carriers and activity systems to study the evolution of the prevailing "smallholder" institutional logic of Ghanaian agriculture toward an incoming "value-chain" institutional logic concerned with linking farmers to output markets, improving the knowledge base in agriculture, and increasing its information intensity. We draw on a mixed-methods approach, including in-depth qualitative interviews, focus groups, observations, and detailed secondary quantitative data. We cultivate activity theory as a practice-based lens for structuring inquiry into institutional change. We find that information artifacts served to link the activities of farmers that were embedded in the smallholder logic with those of agriculturaldevelopment actors that promoted the value-chain logic. Hybridization occurred through the use of artifacts with different interaction modalities. In terms of conceptualizing change, our findings suggest that hybridization of the two logics may be an intermediary point in the long transition from the smallholder toward the valuechain logic.

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“…(Collier & Dercon, 2014;Fafchamps, 2004) Logic, value-chain Institutional logic in agriculture characterized by greater knowledge base and information intensity, as well as availability of facilitation services that link farmers to output markets. (Slavova & Karanasios, 2014)…”

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When Institutional Logics Meet Information and Communication Technologies: Examining Hybrid Information Practices in Ghana’s Agriculture

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Karanasios²

2018

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How do conflicting logics lead to decoupled activities? Evidence from rural Ghana

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