Africa: The management education challenge
Publication Type
Book
Publication Date
6-2016
Abstract
With 3,000 distinct ethnic groups speaking 2,000 languages, Africa encompasses 54 countries but has no collective identity; each country has its own political, economic, and socio-cultural structure. The authors eschew the usual focus on negativity-poverty, war, and disease-and posit that the role and challenge of educational development in Africa at every level can only be understood in terms of the varied history, contexts, cultures, and issues that exist in very different countries. The first two chapters of the book outline the historical backdrop of the evolution of Africa and provide an environmental analysis of the differences, features, and capital endowments of the countries forming the continent. This provides the underlying framework for mapping how management education has developed over the past two decades and in identifying the current challenges in the field. They explore the importance of management education in Africa with the final chapter focusing on an examination of what an African style of management education might be and whether education is realistic or achievable.
Keywords
Management education, business schools, Africa
Discipline
Business | Higher Education
Research Areas
Marketing; Strategy and Organisation
First Page
1
Last Page
138
ISBN
9781786356222
Identifier
10.1108/9781787430952
Publisher
Emerald
City or Country
Bingley
Citation
THOMAS, Howard; LEE, Michelle P.; THOMAS, Lynne; and WILSON, Alexander.
Africa: The management education challenge. (2016). 1-138.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5152
Additional URL
https://worldcat.org/isbn/9781786356222
Comments
See article in Global Focus which summarises the results in the book.