Terence Jackson, Middlesex University Ubuntu has been a buzzword in African management-talk for two decades, but appears not to have delivered in African economies. At
Category: Africa
From Paternalistic to Maternalistic Leadership
Published in International Journal of Cross Cultural Management 2016 April 16(1) as Editorial: Paternalistic leadership: The missing link in cross-cultural leadership studies? Out of the
Indigenous management in Africa’s informal economy in the age of social media
This article first appeared in The Conversation as Why the Voice of Africa’s Informal Economy Should be Heard. The informal economy in Africa is big
Why don’t collectivists act like collectivists? the disconnect thesis
The simple answer to this question is that this is because there is no such thing (abstract noun or otherwise) as a ‘culture’ and therefore
Management Scholarship on, for and from Africa
I’ve recently been thinking about the nature of management research on Africa from its early, sparse, beginnings in, say the 1960s through to the current
Reading list for China in Africa: A cross-cultural management approach
This list should be useful to those scholars embarking on a study of Chinese organizations in sub-Saharan countries. It provides what I consider to be
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