Summary and Final Remarks

Abstract

Despite the obvious need for institutional analyses of development administrations, there is no comprehensive theoretical framework for doing so. Most studies focus on a solitary case and are mainly descriptive in nature. Therefore this study started out to analyze which theoretical approaches could be used for institutional analyses of development administrations. Two research traditions based on different assumptions about the individual were identified as having the potential to guide the analysis of empirical phenomena in development administration: Organization Theory and New Institutional Economics (NIE). While both claim that their approach is more relevant, the results from one of the fields have hardly ever been used in the other.