How individuals learn to do more with less: The role of informal learning and the effects of higher-level education and unemployment in Ghana

König, Anne Kristin Pia; Schmidt, Corinna Vera Hedwig; Kindermann, Bastian; Schmidt, Marc Alexander Peter; Flatten, Tessa Christina

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“…Today, Nollywood is a multi-billion-dollar film industry, and the world’s second largest in terms of output, ahead of Hollywood and behind only India’s Bollywood (Akinwotu, 2021 ). Similarly, Adomako, Amankwah-Amoah, Dankwah, Danso, and Donbesuur ( 2019 ) find that, far from being impediments, institutional voids serve to enable new venture internationalization in Ghana; entrepreneurs in Africa are often able to do considerably more with a lot less (König, Schmidt, Kindermann, Schmidt, & Flatten, 2022 ).…”

Section: Africa As An Opportunity For Advancing Ib Scholarshipmentioning

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Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business

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Africa is rising, but IB scholars have largely failed to take notice. We argue that this is a missed opportunity. Not only is Africa a dynamic and distinctive region, but its rise presents a number of puzzles for international business (IB) research, with phenomena that seem to challenge fundamental assumptions underlying IB theories. In order to unravel these puzzles and better explain business dynamics on the continent, we contend that there is a need for IB theorizing to place greater emphasis on the role of people , to balance IB’s traditional emphasis on institutions, location-specific assets, and other macro-level attributes. We explore how this conceptual shift presents new avenues for inquiry into issues that are of importance for IB but have received limited attention to date. Such issues include entrepreneurial human capital, social networks, institutional co-evolution, and the informal economy. As such, we argue that, while extant theories in IB inform explanations and predictions regarding business activity across the continent, Africa’s diverse and distinctive characteristics offer the potential to serve as a context for testing and developing generalizable, cutting-edge IB theory. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41267-022-00581-z.

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Call For Papers: Management Education in Africa

2024

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Studying and advancing management education practice in Africa holds a lot of promise. Firstly, improving management education stands to contribute to enhancing productivity, economic development, and prosperity in Africa, vital aims for academics and practitioners in Africa and in the diaspora (Akoto & Akoto, 2018;Honig & Hjortsø, 2018;B. D. Zoogah, 2021). Secondly, documenting and disseminating African pedagogical practices stands to enrich global management education (Walsh, 2015). To paraphrase Barnard (2020), sharing insights from a unique "African vantage point" can open up dialog about pedagogical theory and practice. Highlighting non-Western ways of teaching can challenge global knowledge hierarchies, encourage reflexivity and benefit creative innovation in teaching and learning.However, the opportunities offered by management education in Africa remain dampened by historical constraints. The dominance of Western worldviews in management education undercuts the aspirations of African business schools through the disconnect of academic theory from local businesses and market practices, and by the imbalance of global-local themes in the curriculum (Lee et al., 2018). Concerns remain that "much African management education is simply repackaged material designed by professionals and scholars in advanced economies" (Honig & Hjortsø, 2018, p. 126). As such, it remains incommensurate to the challenge of "transformative nation building across all sectors of society" that is posed to management learners and graduates in many African countries (Nkomo, 2015, p. 242). Furthermore, the privileged position of Western points of view has contributed to African management education practices remaining "in the shadows" (Wall et al., 2023), obscuring their value and originality for the broader management community.Our aim for this special issue is to nurture the development of management education in Africa as a field of inquiry by providing a shared forum for dedicated research and scholarship. The special issue also aims to advance meaningful and effective management education that is sensitive to the unique 1245671J MEXXX10.

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How individuals learn to do more with less: The role of informal learning and the effects of higher-level education and unemployment in Ghana

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Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business

Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business

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