Dictating Change, Shouting Success: Where is Accountability?
A great body of literature suggests that the poor were better off before the microfinance sector’s paradigm shift of the mid-1990s. The sector’s ‘dependent’ constituents’ focus changed in an effort to cope with the changes dictated by its ‘controlling’ constituents. This paper’s key finding is that...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Wollongong
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj/vol5/iss4/7 |
| Summary: | A great body of literature suggests that the poor were better off before the microfinance sector’s paradigm shift of the mid-1990s. The sector’s ‘dependent’ constituents’ focus changed in an effort to cope with the changes dictated by its ‘controlling’ constituents. This paper’s key finding is that the not-for-profit sector, where beneficiaries’ interests are at stake, and the corporate sector, where owners and management are separate, should undergo an externally dictated change only after passing through a regulating agency’s scrupulous check, lest the change harm the sector’s beneficiaries. The paper attempts to create awareness among policy-makers of the need to be thoughtful of the ultimate beneficiaries in similar cases of externally dictated organisational change. |
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| ISSN: | 1834-2000 1834-2019 |