Lavagnon Ika
Biographic Data
| ID | 1365539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lavagnon Ika |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lavagnon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ika |
| SIGNATURE | IKA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5543-9489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Can Adoption of the United Kingdom's Osmotherly Rules Improve Accountability in Project Delivery in Canada
Major projects, by which many policies get implemented within the Federal Government of Canada, often experience cost overruns and benefit shortfalls. Yet modicum of accountability seems to prevail. While both Canada and the UK grapple with the challenge of balancing ministerial accountability with their respective operational responsibility, Canadian Project Sponsors (CPS) do not have the same leverage as their UK counterparts, the Senior Respon…
Killing Two Birds With One Stone? A New Pragmatist Perspective on the Rigor‐Relevance Gap in the Literature on Capacity Building Projects
Despite scholarly and professional efforts, most capacity building projects fall short. The normative agenda, an effort to structure the concept and its practical applications, failed to produce rigorous thinking. A rigor‐relevance gap seems to prevail. This article examines capacity building in the academic literature using criteria of scientific rigor and practical relevance. We asked: Why has the normative agenda failed to produce rigorous cap…
Examining Underexplored Aspects of Female Entrepreneurship in the African Context
Female entrepreneurship has become a phenomenon of an increasing interest for the last few decades and as such has captured the attention of many scholars, governments, international institutions f
Organizational learning capacity and international development project success in West Africa
Very few studies have focused on organizational learning within a team as a key success factor for international development projects. In particular, the relationship between organizational learning capacity, organizational efficacy, and project success has received little attention. This is the objective of this case study. It explores this relationship based on 23 semi-structured interviews with project coordinators, team members, and beneficia…
Fifty years of capacity building
This paper assesses the literature on “capacity building” through a systematic literature review. Taking concepts as the ontological building blocks of theories, we ask: what is known about the evolution of capacity building as a concept and what can that history tell us about its strengths and weaknesses? To this end, we dig into the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of capacity building. Through this Foucauldian “archaeological descripti…
Optimism Bias and World Bank Project Performance
This paper examines the correlates of optimism bias and its impact on World Bank project performance. We measure optimism bias in different ways using estimated Economic Rates of Return (ERR) of projects at approval and closure. We examine over 2,800 World Bank projects that were appraised between 1960 and 2019. We find that approximately 60% of projects in the sample were prone to optimism bias. Correlates of optimism bias include both project a…
Guided by the beauty of our weapons
In order to identify their different knowledge areas, concepts, tools and emphases, this article compares project management standards from two non-profit, one parastatal and two governmental organisations working in international development against the standards of the Association for Project Management (APM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI). It finds that the international development and non-international development standards have …
Beneficial or Detrimental Ignorance
Beneficial or Detrimental Ignorance
Guided by the beauty of our weapons
In order to identify their different knowledge areas, concepts, tools and emphases, this article compares project management standards from two non-profit, one parastatal and two governmental organisations working in international development against the standards of the Association for Project Management (APM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI). It finds that the international development and non-international development standards have …
Beneficial or Detrimental Ignorance
Guided by the beauty of our weapons
In order to identify their different knowledge areas, concepts, tools and emphases, this article compares project management standards from two non-profit, one parastatal and two governmental organisations working in international development against the standards of the Association for Project Management (APM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI). It finds that the international development and non-international development standards have …
Fifty years of capacity building
This paper assesses the literature on “capacity building” through a systematic literature review. Taking concepts as the ontological building blocks of theories, we ask: what is known about the evolution of capacity building as a concept and what can that history tell us about its strengths and weaknesses? To this end, we dig into the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of capacity building. Through this Foucauldian “archaeological descripti…
Optimism Bias and World Bank Project Performance
This paper examines the correlates of optimism bias and its impact on World Bank project performance. We measure optimism bias in different ways using estimated Economic Rates of Return (ERR) of projects at approval and closure. We examine over 2,800 World Bank projects that were appraised between 1960 and 2019. We find that approximately 60% of projects in the sample were prone to optimism bias. Correlates of optimism bias include both project a…
Examining Underexplored Aspects of Female Entrepreneurship in the African Context
Female entrepreneurship has become a phenomenon of an increasing interest for the last few decades and as such has captured the attention of many scholars, governments, international institutions f
Organizational learning capacity and international development project success in West Africa
Very few studies have focused on organizational learning within a team as a key success factor for international development projects. In particular, the relationship between organizational learning capacity, organizational efficacy, and project success has received little attention. This is the objective of this case study. It explores this relationship based on 23 semi-structured interviews with project coordinators, team members, and beneficia…
Killing Two Birds With One Stone? A New Pragmatist Perspective on the Rigor‐Relevance Gap in the Literature on Capacity Building Projects
Despite scholarly and professional efforts, most capacity building projects fall short. The normative agenda, an effort to structure the concept and its practical applications, failed to produce rigorous thinking. A rigor‐relevance gap seems to prevail. This article examines capacity building in the academic literature using criteria of scientific rigor and practical relevance. We asked: Why has the normative agenda failed to produce rigorous cap…
Can Adoption of the United Kingdom's Osmotherly Rules Improve Accountability in Project Delivery in Canada
Major projects, by which many policies get implemented within the Federal Government of Canada, often experience cost overruns and benefit shortfalls. Yet modicum of accountability seems to prevail. While both Canada and the UK grapple with the challenge of balancing ministerial accountability with their respective operational responsibility, Canadian Project Sponsors (CPS) do not have the same leverage as their UK counterparts, the Senior Respon…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Construction Project Management and Performance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Public-Private Partnership Projects (3 works) · Actuarial science (2 works)