Sustainable management development in Africa : building capabilities to serve African organizations / / edited by Hamid H. Kazeroony, Yvonne du Plessis, and Bill Buenar Puplampu

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.0096; 658.408096
• Soggetto topico: Management - Africa; Management - Study and teaching - Africa; Economic development - Africa
• Altri autori: Du PlessisYvonne KazeroonyHamid H PuplampuBill B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; 1 Framing Sustainable Management Development in Africa; Part I Capacity Building in Africa; 2 Public Policy and Higher Education: The Case of Botswana; 3 Challenges in Developing African Management Scholars: An Auto-Ethnographic Study; 4 The Role of Accreditation in Overcoming the Challenges of Graduate Management Programs in Africa; 5 Meeting the Graduate Management Program Challenges in Nigeria; Part II African Social, Cultural, and Political Influences ; 6 Cross-Cultural Studies as a Resource for Management Development in Africa7 The Role of Cross-Cultural Communication in Management Practices of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in Sub-Saharan Africa; 8 Surviving in Africa: MNCs' Response to Institutional Deficiencies and Moral Implications; Part III Theorizing African Management and Organization ; 9 Theory Construction to Serve African Management and Organizational Practices; 10 Alternative Approaches to Management Research in Africa: Hermeneutics, Graphic Scales, and Applied Interventions ; 11 Management Theories: The Relegated Strengths-Based African PracticesPart IV Organizational Practices and Management Challenges in Africa; 12 Human Capital Development in Africa: Some Urgent Considerations; 13 Building the Next Generation of African Managers and Entrepreneurs; 14 Public-Private Partnerships for Enhancing Organizational Capabilities in Nigeria; 15 The Role of the Legal Profession in Facilitating a Regulatory Framework for Public-Private Partnerships in Ghana; 16 A Framework for Building Organizational Capabilities in Africa; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Aimed at researchers, academics, and advanced students alike, this book lays the groundwork for the application of uniquely African theoretical and practical perspectives for sustainable management and organizational operation, as explained from a contemporary African point of view. In addition and most important, this book contains a uniquely African content that allows for developing new theories and examining new ways of doing business, thus reaffirming the rise of African scholarship in the fields of management, organization, and business.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sustainable management development in Africa
• ISBN: 1-315-71442-6; 1-317-50096-2; 1-317-50095-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815091603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in international business and the world economy ; ; 63.