Formidable Fences: Organizational Cooperation and Boundary Bullies in Zimbabwe

Harry Wels

Chapter 11 in Managing Boundaries in Organizations: Multiple Perspectives, 2003, pp 211-225 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the white-dominated wildlife-utilization industry in southern Africa, farms sometimes pooled their land together to create large areas for wildlife conservation and wildlife tourism. These were called “private wildlife conservancies,” or just “conservancies” and developed mainly in South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. Electrified fences enclosed many of these conservancies. Officially, these fences were constructed for the purposes of keeping foot and mouth disease away from domesticated cattle, and to prevent wildlife (especially elephants) from creating havoc in the local communities and agricultural fields surrounding the conservancies. The communities usually perceived fences as an outright denial of their access to wildlife, that is, the fences kept people and cattle out of wildlife areas (Duffy 2000, 98-9). The boundary between conservancy organizations and the communities is a formidable fence.

Keywords: Joint Venture; Organizational Cooperation; Symbolic Boundary; Wildlife Area; Land Issue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230512559_12

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