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Author: V C Padaki ,
Manjulika Vaz
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9780761996620
ISBN 10: 0761996621
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
The book brings to focus a number of alternative approaches to development interventions, their funding and management. It is a judicious blend of theory and practice. The book argues for the need to embark upon a journey towards the formation of a recognizable body of knowledge to give us a reliable methodology for institutional development. This document is an important work that goes beyond conventional theories of studying development interventions.... [It] will be widely welcomed by researchers, practitioners and others engaged in development interventions. -- Development Alternatives Institutional Development (ID) is a relatively new field of inquiry that is attracting widespread interest. This book explores both the concept and application of ID from multiple perspectives. -- The Deccan Herald The book stands out as a path-breaking treatise... The academic fervour combined with its practical approach make the book interesting and relevant for the concerned circle of theorists, social scientists, researchers and planners. -- Business Line This book is in the nature of a presentation of a work-in-progress and not merely a report of a research project....The most important consideration in the choice of cases is given to extensiveness and variety rather than to the similarity between them.... Institutional Development (ID) is a relatively new field of inquiry that is attracting widespread interest. This book explores both the concept and application of ID from multiple perspectives. -- The Pakistan Development Review
The book brings to focus a number of alternative approaches to development interventions, their funding and management. It is a judicious blend of theory and practice. The book argues for the need to embark upon a journey towards the formation of a recognizable body of knowledge to give us a reliable methodology for institutional development. This document is an important work that goes beyond conventional theories of studying development interventions.... [It] will be widely welcomed by researchers, practitioners and others engaged in development interventions.--Development Alternatives
This book is in the nature of a presentation of a work-in-progress and not merely a report of a research project....The most important consideration in the choice of cases is given to extensiveness and variety rather than to the similarity between them.... Institutional Development (ID) is a relatively new field of inquiry that is attracting widespread interest. This book explores both the concept and application of ID from multiple perspectives.</p>--The Pakistan Development Review
Author Information
Vijay Padaki is co-founder and Director of The P&P Group, a Bangalore-based management research and consultancy centre with a special focus on organization and institutional development. Early in his career he headed the Human Resources Division of ATIRA (Ahmedabad Textile Industry Research Association). He was a member of the founding faculty of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, where he designed courses in research methodology, organizational behaviour, marketing research, organizational development and rural socio-technical systems. Besides setting up the Chimanlal Lalbhai Centre for Management, Ahmedabad, and helping to formulate the first comprehensive research-based textile policy for India in 1985, he has also been a Visiting Professor in Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Science and Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He has published several books, including Industrial Sickness: The Challenge in Indian Textiles (with V. Shanbhag, ATIRA 1984), Development Intervention and Programme Evaluation: Concepts and Cases (Sage 2001, edited) and Institutional Development in Social Interventions: Towards Inter-Organizational Effectiveness (with Manjulika Vaz, Sage 2003). With a deep involvement in the theatre over many years, he has authored over 25 plays, including a national awardwinning playscript. His plays have been produced internationally. Manjulika Vaz is an independent consultant for The P&P Group and for the Centre for Education and Documentation, as well as Principal Associate at CoCoon Consulting, an HR development firm. She earlier worked in the marketing research division of the Indian Market Research Bureau (1994–95) and with Development Alternatives (1995–97) on a programme for disseminating alternative building materials. Her work at The P&P Group (where she worked full-time from 1997 to 2002) included coordinating action research projects to promote inter-group and inter-organizational collaborative processes. Manjulika Vaz has also been the convenor of projects to study the management development needs of boards of NPOs and to enrich the methodology used in development interventions through a trainer’s forum.
