Paper short abstract:

Governance processes in developing countries in Africa with the help of external cooperation via donations from foreign countries and foreign direct investments, particularly in natural resource exploitation and infrastructure construction: the case of Mozambique

Paper long abstract:

The article focuses on the governance processes that are established between countries with large reserves of natural resources and multinational companies' investors in extraction and processing of these resources. It asks about the mechanisms through which to effect the translation of conceptions, concepts, practices and rationalities that are transported to recipient countries of investments by foreign companies. Conversely on how managers of foreign companies perceive the cultural logics and the rationales underpinning established relationships with government and other national and local actors. For this purpose have been defined the phenomenon of investment as a particular moment of the constitution of the relationship between Governments and institutional actors in that the result reflects the consolidated action patterns over time. Theoretically rests on the debate around the notion of governance whose preponderance currently suggests a fundamental shift in management policy. This is no longer grounded in legitimacy based on the relationship between Governments and national electorates, but rather an ever-greater influence of actors like international organizations, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations in the determination of policy decisions. Mozambique is taken as empirical referents in order to evidence how intertwine and conflict conceptions and views on developmental processes in the context of global dominance over the local place.