An Analysis of the Organisational Culture of the Qatari Gas Industry in Terms of Giddens’ Legitimation Structure: The Case of Technology Transfer

Al-Emadi, Talal Abdulla

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Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi²⁰

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Abstract

Chapters 7 and 8 considered the domination and signification structures, respectively, as two dimensions of the organisational culture of the Qatari gas industry which can help to explain the preference for joint venture agreements in the Qatari gas industry from a macro-level perspective.

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Notes

1.
Staber and Sydow (2002: 412).
2.
Giddens (1979: 98).
3.
Craib notes that compared with the discussions about signification and domination, “Giddens has comparatively little to say about legitimation as such.” To meet this objection, in addition to Giddens’ discussion of legitimation, this chapter relies on the analysis of legitimation provided by Macintosh and Scapens, and Macintosh and Quattrone. See Craib (1992: 191), Macintosh and Scapens (1991: 142) and in general Macintosh and Quattrone (2009).
4.
Macintosh and Quattrone (2009: 220).
5.
Macintosh and Scapens (1991: 142).
6.
Macintosh and Scapens note 5 at 142, and Macintosh and Quattrone note 4 at 220.
7.
Macintosh and Scapens note 5 at 142.
8.
Macintosh and Quattrone note 4 at 220.
9.
See Footnote 5.
10.
Macintosh and Scapens note 9 at 142.
11.
Hart (1994) 168.
12.
Hart note 11 at 173.
13.
Giddens (1976: 108).
14.
Giddens 1976 note 13 at 109.
15.
See Footnote 14.
16.
Giddens 1976 note 13 at 110.
17.
Giddens (1976: 109–110).
18.
Solem and Scanlan (1986: 48).
19.
Solem and Scanlan note 18 at 48.
20.
Westing (1986: 5).
21.
Westing note 20 at 5.
22.
Teece (2003: 235).
23.
Guo (2005: 20).
24.
Rice (2007: 44).
25.
Rees (1985: 141).
26.
R Guo note 23 at 134.
27.
Stuckey (1983: 152).
28.
Rosenberg (1976: 157).
29.
Stuckey note 27 at 152; and Hennart and Larimo (1998: 521).
30.
Head of legal department of a foreign oil company residing in Qatar, interview 10.8.2010.
31.
Managing Partner of an international law firm residing in Qatar, interview 19.7.2010.
32.
Steinke (1991) and The Students of the Technology Transfer Design Project Team (1997: 494).
33.
In general see Orlikowski (1992).
34.
Orlikowski note 33 at 423.
35.
Orlikowski note 33 at 405.
36.
Qatar is classified as a developing country according to the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Report October 2010. See International Monetary Fund ‘World Economic Outlook October 2010: Recovery, Risk, and Rebalancing’ (IMF October 2010) http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/01/weodata/index.aspx accessed 25 October 2010.
37.
Orlikowski (1992: 422).
38.
Orlikowski (1992: 406).
39.
Zvorikine (1962: 444). Tracking the word “technology” is expected to contribute to our understanding of technology as a “contested and historically contingent” concept, based on the view that “words did not just reflect social and political reality; they were instruments for transforming reality.” See Pursell (2010: 717) and Hunt (1989: 17).
40.
Oldenziel (2006: 479).
41.
Ernst and O’Connor (1989: 20).
42.
Rosenberg (1976: 1–2).
43.
Bijker et al. (1989: 107).
44.
Orlikowski (1992: 423).
45.
Orlikowski note 44 at 409.
46.
Orlikowski note 44 at 410.
47.
Orlikowski note 44 at 149.
48.
Zvorikine (1962: 443).
49.
See Footnote 41.
50.
Bijker et al. (1989: 4), Kline (2003: 210) and Ross (2003: 568).
51.
Callon (1989: 83).
52.
Moore (1972: 5).
53.
Goyder (2005: 36).
54.
Kline (2003: 210–211).
55.
Goyder note 53 at 22.
56.
Goyder note 53 at 29.
57.
Kogut and Zander (1992: 383).
58.
Jennex (2005: 54) and Kogut and Zander (1992: 386).
59.
Jennex note 58 at 291.
60.
A group of officials in a Qatari gas company, interview 23.7.2010.
61.
See Footnote 31.
62.
See Footnote 60.
63.
See Footnote 31.
64.
Jennex (2005: 54) and Kogut and Zander (1992: 385 and 389).
65.
Bozeman (2000: 627, 629).
66.
Selinger (2009: 382).
67.
Ihde (1990: 128) and Selinger (2009: 382).
68.
D Ihde note 67 at 128.
69.
Buccholz and Rosenthal (2002: 48).
70.
Stine and Tarr (1998: 606, 634).
71.
Morris (1977: 395).
72.
See Footnote 53.
73.
Barley (1986: 78).
74.
Layton (1974: 32).
75.
Ross (1991: 3).
76.
See Footnote 69.
77.
Buccholz and Rosenthal note 76 at 48–49.
78.
See Footnote 60.
79.
Teece (1983: 233) and Stuckey (1983: 22).
80.
Thorelli (1986: 37) and Contractor and Lorange (2002: 15).
81.
See Footnote 60.
82.
CEO of an international firm with a branch in Doha, interview 9.11.2010.
83.
Dymsza (2002: 411).
84.
Cooper (1985: 2005).
85.
See Footnote 60.
86.
See Footnote 60.
87.
See Footnote 31.
88.
See Footnote 60.
89.
Ravn and Vidal (1986: 207).
90.
See Footnote 37.
91.
Orlikowski (1992: 407, 422).
92.
Orlikowski note 91 at 422.
93.
Orlikowski note 91 at 408.
94.
Pursell (1995: 9).
95.
Pursell (2010: 716).
96.
DeSanctis and Poole (1994: 126).
97.
See Footnote 37.
98.
DeSanctis and Poole note 96 at 126; and Orlikowski and Barley (2001: 149).
99.
Orlikowski note 97 at 407.
100.
Layton (1974: 38).
101.
Orlikowski and Barley (2001: 149).
102.
Orlikowski (1992: 407–408).
103.
See Footnote 67.
104.
See Footnote 66.
105.
Orlikowski (2000: 408).
106.
Giddens (1976: 110).
107.
See Footnote 37.
108.
See Footnote 82.
109.
See Footnote 25.
110.
Zack (1999: 128–129) and Al-Ali (1991: 267).
111.
Inkpen (1996: 123) and Berrell et al. (2002: 84).
112.
Worrell et al. (2001: 39).
113.
Grynspan (1982: 797) and Asheghian (1985: 72).
114.
Grynspan note 113 at 797; and Ravn and Vidal (1986: 207).
115.
Cook and Surrey (1989: 448).
116.
See Footnote 82.
117.
The General Secretariat for Development Planning (GSDP) ‘Qatar National Vision’ (GSDP July 2008) http://www.gsdp.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/GSDP_Vision_Root/GSDP_EN/What.%20We%20Do/QNV_2030 accessed 25 October 2010.
118.
Ravn and Vidal (1986: 207) and Asheghian (1985: 72).
119.
Berdrow and Lane (2003: 17).
120.
Inkpen (1996: 126).
121.
Inkpen note 120 at 126.
122.
Nonaka (1994: 17) and Berdrow and Lane (2003: 17).
123.
See Footnote 122.
124.
Nonaka and von Krogh (2009: 635) and Nonaka note 123 at 17.
125.
Killing (1980: 39).
126.
Rosenberg (1976: 168).
127.
Nonaka (1994: 17) and Berdrow and Lane (2003: 19).
128.
Bell and Scott-Kemmis (1985: 1995), Cook and Surrey (1989: 443) Al-Ali (1991: 133–134) and Pavitt (1999: 12).
129.
Al-Ali note 128 at 138; and Pavitt (1999: 3).
130.
See Footnote 112.
131.
Rosenberg (1976: 167).
132.
See Footnote 82.
133.
Ito (1985: 2041) and Reddy and Zhao (1990: 299) and Teece (2003: 236).
134.
Rosenberg note 131 at 167.
135.
Al-Ali (1991: 138).
136.
See Footnote 82.
137.
Cook and Surrey (1989: 443).
138.
Rasgas II as amended in March 2001 Article 12.6 states that the JVA parties “shall establish a programme to train personnel of QP and the Company to undertake skilled technical jobs in Petroleum Operations. Such programme shall also include provisions for involving representatives of QP in the preparation of the training programmes. Without prejudice to the right of the preparation of the Company to select employees and determine the number thereof, the Company shall gradually increase employment levels of qualified nationals as they become available, on the understanding that the paramount interest of all the parties is the safe and efficient conduct of Petroleum Operations”.
139.
See Footnote 82.
140.
Al-Ali (1991: 133).

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Al-Emadi, T.A. (2019). An Analysis of the Organisational Culture of the Qatari Gas Industry in Terms of Giddens’ Legitimation Structure: The Case of Technology Transfer. In: Joint Venture Agreements in the Qatari Gas Industry. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12623-0_9

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