ABSTRACT
Management knowledge has not only influenced wealth, innovation and performance of individuals and groups (Romer 1993; Wenger and Snyder 2000), it also accounts for differences in national development and corporate growth (Romer 1998). One could further assert that the quality of management knowledge is critical for the transformation of the developmental state of most countries in Africa (Nkomo 2011). Sustainable production of management knowledge is also critical to offering high-quality, world-class management education at tertiary institutions on the continent to produce a cadre of well-educated managers and leaders. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of meaningful management knowledge in Africa as indicated by a number of scholars and other sources. There are some reports that have identified the poor state of management research and scholarship about Africa (Kuada 2010; Broug, Foster, Heppenstall and Laraz 2008; Mouton 2010). For example, in a report entitled Emerald Academy 2008 Authorship in Africa, Broug et al. (2008) found that only 2.16 percent of authors on the Emerald journal database were based in Africa at the time of their publication. Others have also noted that research on management and organizations in Africa comprises a minuscule percentage of the extant body of knowledge in the field of management (Zoogah, Peng and Woldu 2009; Nkomo 2011).
