1st Edition
Sustainable Management Development in Africa Building Capabilities to Serve African Organizations
1. Framing Sustainable Management Development in in Africa
Hamid H. Kazeroony
Part 1: Capacity Building in Africa
2. Public Policy and Higher Education: The Case of Botswana
Dorothy Mpabanga
3. Challenges in Developing African Management Scholars: An Auto-ethnographic Study
Emmanuel Mukwevho and Yvonne du Plessis
4. The Role of Accreditation in Overcoming the Challenges of Graduate Management Programs in Africa
Enase Okonedo and Timothy Aluko
5. Meeting the Graduate Management Program Challenges in Nigeria
Olusegun Matanmi
Part 2: African Social, Cultural, and Political Influences
6. Cross-Cultural Studies as a Resource for Management Development in Africa
Mariya Bobina and Mikhail Grachev
7. The Role of Cross-Cultural Communication in Management Practices of Multinational Companies (MNCS) in Sub-Saharan Africa
James Baba Abugre
8. Surviving in Africa: MNCs Response to Institutional Deficiencies and Moral Implications
Adeyinka A. Adewale and Sharif M. Khalid
Part 3: Theorizing African Management and Organization
9. Theory Construction to Serve African Management and Organizational Practices Hamid H. Kazeroony
10. Alternative Approaches to Management Research in Africa: Hermeneutics, Graphic Scales and Applied Interventions
Bill Buenar Puplampu
11. Management Theories: The Relegated Strengths Based African Practices
Shiphrah Mutungi, Emmanuel Mutungi, and Rose Fuentes
Part 4: Challenges and Pathways to Building Organizational Capabilities in Africa
12. Human Capital Development in Africa: Some Urgent Considerations
Bill Buenar Puplampu
13. Building the Next Generation of African Managers and Entrepreneurs
Henrietta Onwuegbuzie
14. Public Private Partnerships for Enhancing Organizational Capabilities in Nigeria
Osikhuemhe Okwilagwe and Christos Apostolakis
15. The Role of the Legal Profession in Facilitating a Regulatory Framework for Public Private Partnerships in Ghana
Bill Buenar Puplampu
16. A Framework for Building Organizational Capabilities in Africa
Hamid H. Kazeroony
Biography
Hamid H. Kazeroony is a Professor of Business at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Inver Hills, USA.
Yvonne Plessis is a Full Professor at the Graduate School of Business and Government Leadership at the North-West University, South Africa
Bill Buenar Puplampu is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, a Chartered Psychologist (BPS), and Dean of the Central Business School of Central University College, Ghana.
"This book is a window on African management practice and issues that will prove valuable to those interested in doing business in Africa." –James P. Walsh, University of Michigan, USA
