The book provides an empirical case study as to how the macro political dynamics lead to the micro cost management changes in the public organisations. It draws on Dillard et al.'s (2004) version of institutional theory. Empirical data come from three months' ethnographic fieldwork in an Egyptian electricity and energy (E&E) company, MEEDCO, triangulated with various secondary sources of data on macro political dynamics. The book highlights the necessity of seeing cost management change, especially in the politically sensitive public utilities in less developed countries, as an institutional...
The book provides an empirical case study as to how the macro political dynamics lead to the micro cost management changes in the public organisations...