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A Notsie narrative perspective on turnover in the UK financial services industry 英国金融服务业营业额的诺西叙事视角

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2106911

D. Sarpong, M. Maclean, Wuraola Hassan

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Social capital and firm performance nexus: The role of new product development capability and environmental dynamism in an emerging economy 社会资本与企业绩效关系:新产品开发能力与环境动力在新兴经济体中的作用

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2106920

Patrick Akanpaaba, Ahmed Agyapong, Henry Kofi Mensah, S. Akomea

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Building legitimacy and distinctiveness on Nigerian-Canadian transnational ventures’ websites 在尼日利亚-加拿大跨国企业的网站上建立合法性和独特性

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2107256

Diane A. Isabelle, M. Westerlund, Victoria Sajuyigbe

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The making of a makerspace in Ethiopia: A study of legitimacy using Actor-Network Theory 埃塞俄比亚创客空间的形成:基于行动者网络理论的合法性研究

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071577

Lucia Corsini

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Special issue editorial: Social innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa 特刊社论:非洲的社会创新和企业家精神

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071579

D. Littlewood, Giacomo Ciambotti, D. Holt, Laurel A. Steinfield

{"title":"Special issue editorial: Social innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa","authors":"D. Littlewood, Giacomo Ciambotti, D. Holt, Laurel A. Steinfield","doi":"10.1080/23322373.2022.2071579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2022.2071579","url":null,"abstract":"noting how frugal innovations can emerge from these archetypes. Stein ﬁ eld and Holt ’ s (2019) work illustrates the growing sophistication of research on social innovation in Africa, and the potential of such work to contribute to the wider ﬁ eld. Some of the cases in Stein ﬁ eld and Holt ’ s (2019) paper also relate to the work of African social entrepreneurs and enterprises. This again highlights the linkages between social innovation and entrepreneurship and supports consideration of both in this special issue. Social entrepreneurs devise and/or adopt and disseminate social innovations through their venturing. new forms venturing, and the actions transformative They beyond to examine enabling and intermedi-ary actors – incubators and makerspaces – and so engage with current work on social inno-vation/entrepreneurial networks and ecosystems. The papers deploy diverse theories, concepts and perspectives, including some hitherto less applied in social innovation and entrepreneurship literature, for instance ANT and spatial bricolage. Theory is built and extended through the adoption of grounded theory approaches, and particularly – although not exclusively – qualitative methods. Finally, the papers have signi ﬁ cant implications for practice and those looking to support social innovators and entrepreneurs in Africa, and elsewhere, for the enrichment of society.","PeriodicalId":37290,"journal":{"name":"Africa Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48934857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Institutions and training: A case of social franchising in Africa 制度与培训:非洲社会特许经营案例

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071575

Judith Jacob Iddy, I. Alon, Benjamin C. Litalien

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Social entrepreneurs’ learning experience in South African incubators 社会企业家在南非孵化器的学习经历

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071573

Aleia Bucci, J. Marks

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Instigating transformative entrepreneurship in subsistence communities: Supporting leaders' transcendence and self-determination 在自给社区激发变革性创业:支持领导者的超越和自决

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071574

Steven W. Rayburn, Gideon Ochieng

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Social entrepreneurs’ use of spatial bricolage to create frugal innovation in a divided urban setting 社会企业家利用空间拼贴在一个分裂的城市环境中创造节俭的创新

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2071578

Susanne Nilsson, Mikael Samuelsson, Camille Meyer

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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 个人如何学会用更少的钱做更多的事：非正规学习的作用以及加纳高等教育和失业的影响

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-03-20 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2022.2039051

Anne König, C. Schmidt, Bastian Kindermann, Marc Alexander Peter Schmidt, T. Flatten

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