ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the interactions between African and Chinese approaches to managing knowledge transfer during collaborations in Africa. China-Africa relations are subject to various analyses regarding how the two parties interact with each other. Trade between the two regions has reached hundreds of billions of dollars over the last few years and has been on the increase since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. International joint ventures are entities that are formed by at least two partnering companies from two different countries and with different parent organisational cultures. They can be established because partners want to scale up their individual resources toward a greater outcome than if they were to do things independently and separately. The data was updated in 2019 with new discussions with some of the initial participants from Africa interviewed in 2014 and who were still working in the same joint ventures.
