Manara, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-1705-4211 and Pani, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-4616-0195 (2023) Institutional work: how lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania. Journal of Economic Geography, 23 (6). pp. 1213-1236. ISSN 1468-2702
Abstract
We examine the ‘institutional configuration’ that makes land titles work as collateral in Tanzania’s nascent credit market, through the ‘institutional work’ of local lenders. This work is effective and precarious: while lenders seek out and create institutional complementarities across diverse domains, they also require higher-level regulation to help stabilise land titles’ fungibility as collateral. Our results contribute to knowledge on path-dependency, contingency and uneven trajectories in the property-credit nexus development, and advance understandings of institutional interdependencies and coevolution in the situated economy. By combining deep contextualisation and institutional analysis, we progress an empirical engagement with institutional research in economic geography.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author (2023). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Human Geography; Human Society; Life on Land |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2024 15:25 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2024 15:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/jeg/lbad019 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:207814 |