Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations

Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Adam Moe Fejerskov
Additional contact information
Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde: Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lars Engberg-Pedersen: Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
Adam Moe Fejerskov: Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark

Progress in Development Studies, 2018, vol. 18, issue 2, 77-94

Abstract: Contemporary development cooperation is characterized by an increasing tension between a growing diversity of actors and significant attempts at homogenizing development practices through global norms prescribing ‘good development’. This special issue shows empirically how diverse development organizations engage with global norms on gender equality. To understand this diversity of norm-engagement conceptually, this introductory article proposes four explanatory dimensions: (i) organizational history, culture and structures; (ii) actor strategies, emotions and relationships; (iii) organizational pressures and priorities; and (iv) the normativeenvironment and stakeholders. We argue that, while development organizations cannot avoid addressing global norms regarding gender equality, they do so in considerably divergent ways. However, the differences are explained less by whether these organizations constitute ‘new’ or ‘old’ donors than by the four identified dimensions.

Keywords: global norms; development organizations; gender equality; new actors; organizational change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1464993417750289 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:prodev:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:77-94

DOI: 10.1177/1464993417750289

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Progress in Development Studies
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().