@article{241ea706c94f44a392d1dcf884e10185,
title = "Public organizational birth and death: Understanding the exigencies of an African political environment",
abstract = "This research examines the application of theories of organizational birth and death in transitional and undemocratic political settings. Through the case study of the birth and death of the Ministry of Supplies and Marketing in Kenya, the author determines that theoretical explanations of organizational formation and demise do not necessarily fit a uniform profile. Under unstable and undemocratic environments, public organizations that are brought to life through decrees may also be unexpectedly vanished without following a logical and predictable cyclical sequence.",
keywords = "Kenya, Ministry of supplies and marketing, Organizational birth and death, Organizational environment, Reorganization",
author = "Otenyo, {Eric E.}",
note = "Funding Information: MSM also played a supportive role in promoting donor-sponsored projects in the agricultural marketing sector, for example, the Agriculture Sector Management Program (ASMP) and the Agricultural Sector Adjustment Operations (ASAO)— funded by the World Bank (Karuga 1993; World Bank 1990). MSM also provided liaison contacts for United States Agency for International Development{\textquoteright}s (USAID) Kenya Market Development Program (KMDP)—which supplemented market liberation in key commodities (Pearson 1992). These agencies prescribed policy solutions that were remarkably similar in logic and intensity and have received wide attention in scholarship (Bates 1988, 336; 1989, 76). Briefly, the policies involved deregulating from the usual state intervention strategies especially the elimination of price controls, phasing out maize movement permits, and cutting back on state subventions to NCPB. The latter would be achieved through a phased reduction of grain buying centers and decontrol of storage management.",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/s11115-008-0063-6",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "8",
pages = "273--290",
journal = "Public Organization Review",
issn = "1566-7170",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
number = "3",
}