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Dear Colleagues;

I would like to draw your attention to a new book providing fresh approach to diversity of scholarly work from Africa published by Routledge.  

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa. In a broader sense, this book, within an African context, explores how human capital and intellectual capabilities can be organized at the higher education level; describes the cultural, social, and political influencers impacting management and organization; helps conceptualize African management theories to address organizational effectiveness; addresses the current management and organizational practices in Africa in identifying challenges; and provides guidance for more effective management and organizational operation.

Aimed at researchers, academics, and advanced students alike, this book lays the groundwork for the application of uniquely African theoretical and practical perspectives for sustainable management and organizational operation, as explained from a contemporary African point of view. In addition and most important, this book contains a uniquely African content that allows for developing new theories and examining new ways of doing business, thus reaffirming the rise of African scholarship in the fields of management, organization, and business.

"This book is a window on African management practice and issues that will prove valuable to those interested in doing business in Africa." –James P. Walsh, University of Michigan, USA

1. Framing Sustainable Management Development in in Africa

Part 1: Capacity Building in Africa

2. Public Policy and Higher Education: The Case of Botswana

3. Challenges in Developing African Management Scholars: An Auto-ethnographic Study

4. The Role of Accreditation in Overcoming the Challenges of Graduate Management Programs in Africa

5. Meeting the Graduate Management Program Challenges in Nigeria

Part 2: African Social, Cultural, and Political Influences

6. Cross-Cultural Studies as a Resource for Management Development in Africa

7. The Role of Cross-Cultural Communication in Management Practices of Multinational Companies (MNCS) in Sub-Saharan Africa

8. Surviving in Africa: MNCs Response to Institutional Deficiencies and Moral Implications

Part 3: Theorizing African Management and Organization

9. Theory Construction to Serve African Management and Organizational Practices

10. Alternative Approaches to Management Research in Africa: Hermeneutics, Graphic Scales and Applied Interventions

11. Management Theories: The Relegated Strengths Based African Practices

Part 4: Challenges and Pathways to Building Organizational Capabilities in Africa

12. Human Capital Development in Africa: Some Urgent Considerations

13. Building the Next Generation of African Managers and Entrepreneurs

14. Public Private Partnerships for Enhancing Organizational Capabilities in Nigeria

15. The Role of the Legal Profession in Facilitating a Regulatory Framework for Public Private Partnerships in Ghana

16. A Framework for Building Organizational Capabilities in Africa