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Management Education and Africa's Economic Growth and Development

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Management Education and Africa's Economic Growth and Development

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Management Education and Africa's Economic Growth and Development book

ByDavid N. Abdulai
BookAfrican-Centred Management Education

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
Imprint Routledge
Pages 20
eBook ISBN 9781315566078

ABSTRACT

This chapter argues that management education can play an important role in Africa's economic development. It refers to the increase in an economy's gross domestic product (GDP) and income over time. Africa has come a long way from the time when it was regarded by Afro pessimists as a poor continent with precarious states and beggarly people. Africa's new leadership has come to realize succinctly the importance of management education in their socioeconomic and development efforts. Mimicking management and business schools in the West and the offering of similar or identical programmes by management schools in Africa would contribute little to Africa's development efforts. The chapter looks at the performance of management schools in Africa vis--vis their contribution to the growth and development efforts of the continent and found them wanting. It further looks at the possibilities of these schools coming up with unique African management styles based on research and knowledge of the African environment and context.

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