African and Chinese Managerial Practices: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Abodohoui, Alexis; Su, Zhan; Bocco, Bertrand Sogbossi; Chrysostome, Elie

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“…The findings of participating entrepreneurs displaying strong affective and socio-emotional behaviour towards their Eritrean people even up to the point of sacrificing entrepreneurial profit connects to the Ubuntu notion -which reflects commonality of African societies (Lutz, 2009). The Ubuntu notion portrays a viewpoint of life and value system that is strongly inscribed in the African person and culture that contrast Western viewpoint (Abodohoui et al, 2020). As elaborated by Mbigi (1997), Ubuntu implies "I am because we are, and since we are, therefore, I am" (cited in Abodohoui et al, 2020, p.197).…”

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African Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the UK

Opute¹,

Iwu²,

Khosa³

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The importance of ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) has been lauded in the entrepreneurship discourse. Building on entrepreneurial orientation theory, this study seeks to understand family influence on the entrepreneurial processes, practices, and decision-making activities in a relatively under-explored social group. The methodological approach in this study involved in-depth interviews with 10 entrepreneurs based in the United Kingdom. This study found strong social identity congruence behaviour of explored entrepreneurs from the point of how their entrepreneurial orientation is family-influence driven. For the entrepreneurs, the family is a central behaviour factor that exerts significantly on their entrepreneurial processes and decision making. As a result, actual judgement and decision making of entrepreneurs may not necessarily be driven by economic logic but largely by family control factors that even exert more significantly on entrepreneurial behaviour. This study contributes to the psychological and family control perspectives on entrepreneurship discourse. This study has two core limitations: it is based on the qualitative approach and explores only one social group. Future research in the form of quantitative studies that also examine other cultural enclaves would therefore help to enhance the causes and effects conclusions suggested in this study.

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Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

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African Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the UK

Opute¹,

Iwu²,

Khosa³

et al. 2021

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Introduction to the Thematic Feature

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Mbengue

Diambeidou

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This article shows how international business/management (IB/IM) research can be articulated to an in-depth understanding of Africa to serve both academic knowledge development and African priorities. It critically recalls the central characteristics of IB/IM as a field of research, shows how Africa is studied in this field, suggests “African management” as one response to some of the major criticisms of current research in IB/IM, outlines some crossovers between IB/IM and African management, and discusses the contribution of Africa-focused publications in the journal International Management to some of the foundations of the proposed cross-fertilization between IB/IM and African management.

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African and Chinese Managerial Practices: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Cited by 2 publications

References 154 publications

African Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the UK

African Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the UK

Introduction to the Thematic Feature

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