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Blind spots in African management education: An examination of issues deserving greater attention
journal contribution
posted on 2018-03-26, 13:15 authored by Michelle Lee, Howard Thomas, Lynne Thomas, Alex WilsonThere is reason to be optimistic about management education in Africa given the growth in number of business schools on the continent and continued efforts at raising quality. There remains room for improvement in the field, of course, and the issues and challenges that need to be tackled have been written about elsewhere (e.g. African Management Initiative (AMI), 2013; AMBA, 2015; Thomas et al., 2016). The study reported here has the more nuanced purpose of understanding the blind spots that persist in the field. These are issues that are largely ignored or receive insufficient attention because their significance is underestimated. Through a series of structured in-depth interviews with leading management educators and stakeholders, we uncover three potential blind spots to do with a lack of demand-side orientation, unequal access to management education, and the need for glocalisation.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
African Journal of ManagementCitation
LEE, M. ... et al, 2018. Blind spots in African management education: An examination of issues deserving greater attention. African Journal of Management, 4(2), pp. 158-176.Publisher
© Africa Academy of Management. Published by Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in African Journal of Management on 15 May 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23322373.2018.1458544.Acceptance date
2018-03-12Publication date
2018-05-15ISSN
2332-2373eISSN
2332-2381Publisher version
Language
- en