ABSTRACT

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of African Business, this book delves into contemporary issues in business and business knowledge development in Africa.

This collection of eight chapters—by fourteen distinguished scholars based in Africa, Europe, and North America—covers anticorruption strategies; domestic credit and export diversification; the challenges of doing business in African countries; the emergence of African endogenous businesses; board gender diversity; governance and performance of strategic alliances; customer-centric marketing in Africa; and the intellectual development of the Journal of African Business as the premier research outlet for African business since its inception in 2000. Each chapter offers a cogently differentiated perspective about business growth or business knowledge development in Africa.

Made up of contributions which are vividly and ingeniously written to be accessible to decision-makers and other non-experts, this book will be of interest to all those researching the development of business in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of African Business.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

In Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Journal of African Business

chapter 1|20 pages

Domestic Credit and Export Diversification

Africa from a Global Perspective

chapter 2|15 pages

Anticorruption Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lessons from Experience and Ingredients of a Successful Strategy

chapter 3|11 pages

The Endogenous African Business

Why and How It Is Different, Why It Is Emerging Now and Why It Matters

chapter 5|18 pages

Board Gender Diversity

Challenges and Implications for Corporations in the East African Community

chapter 7|10 pages

Challenges of Doing Business in Africa

A Systematic Review