TY - JOUR
T1 - The interplay of planned and emergent change in Cuba
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina e
AU - Cunha, Rita
PY - 2003/8
Y1 - 2003/8
N2 - This paper analyses the interplay of planned and emergent change in fin de siècle Cuba. The situation in this nation is analysed according to a theory of action that sees change as the result of interplay between top-down, State-directed planned change and emergent, bottom-up, problem-driven change. Drawing on a series of eight focus groups with a total of 106 Cuban executives and management scholars, this paper addresses the Cuban case to suggest that the essence of change may be captured through a structural perspective, where agents and structure interact to produce the social innovations required in face of environmental change. The article reports how the need to protect the nation's core ideology is being combined with the adoption of Western management practices, and how the process of social innovation can be thought of as the recursive interplay between planned features emanating from the institutional context and emergent actions resulting from individual attempts to deal with local conditions.
AB - This paper analyses the interplay of planned and emergent change in fin de siècle Cuba. The situation in this nation is analysed according to a theory of action that sees change as the result of interplay between top-down, State-directed planned change and emergent, bottom-up, problem-driven change. Drawing on a series of eight focus groups with a total of 106 Cuban executives and management scholars, this paper addresses the Cuban case to suggest that the essence of change may be captured through a structural perspective, where agents and structure interact to produce the social innovations required in face of environmental change. The article reports how the need to protect the nation's core ideology is being combined with the adoption of Western management practices, and how the process of social innovation can be thought of as the recursive interplay between planned features emanating from the institutional context and emergent actions resulting from individual attempts to deal with local conditions.
KW - Cuba
KW - Emergent change
KW - Focus groups
KW - Planned change
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0037971169&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0969-5931(03)00038-6
DO - 10.1016/S0969-5931(03)00038-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037971169
SN - 0969-5931
VL - 12
SP - 445
EP - 459
JO - International Business Review
JF - International Business Review
IS - 4
ER -