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Firm-specific orientations and manufacturing capability under institutional voids 制度空白下的企业特定导向与制造能力

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1902211

D. Rwehumbiza

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Does extant work-family research generalize to African Nations? Meta-analytic tests 现存的工作家庭研究是否适用于非洲国家？荟萃分析测试

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1911453

Jenny M. Hoobler, Suzanne Gericke, E. Koekemoer

引用次数: 1

Alone or in company? Cultural orientation, strategic response and COVID-19 outcomes 一个人还是有同伴?文化导向、战略应对和COVID-19成果

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1878811

B. Zoogah, Benedicta S. Quao, Vincent H. T. Musah, P. O. Ahwireng

{"title":"Alone or in company? Cultural orientation, strategic response and COVID-19 outcomes","authors":"B. Zoogah, Benedicta S. Quao, Vincent H. T. Musah, P. O. Ahwireng","doi":"10.1080/23322373.2021.1878811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2021.1878811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The respiratory disease, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began in December 2019, and became a pandemic in early 2020, has posed critical challenges not only for nations and businesses but also individuals. As a result, management scholars are examining organizational and management antecedents and effects of COVID-19. Leveraging crisis management as the overarching theory we report on three studies that examine cultural orientation and strategic response as antecedents, leader obligation as a moderator, and dual economy effects of COVID-19. Data from archival sources (Afrobarometer, Worldodometer, and the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center) of countries in Africa (n = 18) show main and interactive effects of leader obligation in Study 1. In Study 2 strategic responses of countries relate to COVID-19 outcomes. In Study 3, we find some effects of COVID-19 on small and medium firms. We discuss the findings, contributions as well as implications for research and policy development, and conclude with limitations and future research.","PeriodicalId":37290,"journal":{"name":"Africa Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23322373.2021.1878811","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48006404","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}

引用次数: 1

Business management education in the African context of (post-)Covid-19: Applying a proximity framework 新冠肺炎后非洲背景下的企业管理教育：应用邻近性框架

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1878807

S. Ibrahim, A. Fowler, M. Kiggundu

{"title":"Business management education in the African context of (post-)Covid-19: Applying a proximity framework","authors":"S. Ibrahim, A. Fowler, M. Kiggundu","doi":"10.1080/23322373.2021.1878807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2021.1878807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What happens when Covid-19 meets Africa? To find answers, this article examines tertiary management education delivered by the continent’s business schools in the context of Africa’s susceptibilities to the pandemic. The concept of proximity is applied as an axiomatic analytic complement to Covid’s transmission pathways impacting on the psychosocial foundation of human relations, people’s spatial distribution and their time perspectives. Taking management literature into account, proximity is applied to Africa’s business schools in terms of their immediate and long-term responses to the pandemic, suggesting practical post-Covid reforms considered from a humanistic management approach to management education and scholarship. A theme throughout this article is that Covid-19’s exposure of contextual vulnerabilities presents an opportunity and imperative for business schools’ re-missioning and renewal to enhance relevance, quality and building post-Covid resilience. The article provides a framework for the study of other Covid-sensitive sectors or organizations and theory development and testing using different proximity conceptualizations, frames and combinations thereof. Limitations of the study are discussed.","PeriodicalId":37290,"journal":{"name":"Africa Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23322373.2021.1878807","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48873664","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}

引用次数: 4

Racialized social class work: Making sense of inequality in South Africa during the COVID-19 lockdown 种族化的社会阶层工作:在COVID-19封锁期间理解南非的不平等

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1878812

Jenny M. Hoobler, Kim E. Dowdeswell, L. Mahlatji

引用次数: 2

The impact of Covid-19 on gold and gemstone artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana and Kenya 2019冠状病毒病对撒哈拉以南非洲手工和小规模金矿和宝石开采的影响:以加纳和肯尼亚为例

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1878808

Judy N. Muthuri, Aditya Jain, Arthur A. O. Ndegwa, S. M. Mwagandi, N. Tagoe

引用次数: 8

Responding to COVID-19: Insights from African firms 应对新冠肺炎：来自非洲企业的见解

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1878809

Rebecca Namatovu, M. Larsen

引用次数: 5

The performance implications of strategic responses of SMEs to the covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from an African economy 中小企业应对covid-19大流行战略对业绩的影响:来自非洲经济体的证据

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1878810

S. Aidoo, Ahmed Agyapong, Moses Acquaah, S. Akomea

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引用次数: 26

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Preliminary investigations into the COVID-19 pandemic and management in Africa 特刊导言:对非洲COVID-19大流行和管理的初步调查

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1882223

Moses Acquaah, Rebecca Namatovu, M. Kiggundu

{"title":"INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Preliminary investigations into the COVID-19 pandemic and management in Africa","authors":"Moses Acquaah, Rebecca Namatovu, M. Kiggundu","doi":"10.1080/23322373.2021.1882223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2021.1882223","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns and restrictions taken by African governments to mitigate the spread of the virus have adversely affected the lives of people, health systems, organizations, society, and national economies. In this special issue, we take the initial steps in providing a broad overview of the effects of the pandemic and the management implications for Africa. We further present six studies that provide preliminary investigations into the impact and responses of individuals, organizations, and nations. The studies focus on the effects of the lockdowns in making sense of societal inequality through social class and race, how cultural orientation and strategic responses affect pandemic outcomes, how the pandemic engenders innovation and entrepreneurship, strategic responses of firms and performance, experiences of and prospects for management education post-COVID-19, and how the pandemic has affected artisanal small-scale miners and mining communities. The Special Issue invites management scholars to undertake further research to improve our understanding and management of the pandemic for the benefit of all Africans.","PeriodicalId":37290,"journal":{"name":"Africa Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23322373.2021.1882223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43340184","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}

引用次数: 6

Lost in Transfer? Exploring the Influence of Culture on the Transfer of Knowledge Categories 转账丢失？论文化对知识范畴转移的影响

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2020.1830696

Obinna Alo

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引用次数: 8