Contemporary Issues and Prospects in Business Development in Africa
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of African Business, this book delves into contemporary issues in business and business knowledge development in Africa.
This collection of eight chaptersby fourteen distinguished scholars based in Africa, Europe, and North Americacovers anticorruption strategies; domestic credit and export diversification; the challenges of doing business in African countries; the emergence of African endogenous businesses; board gender diversity; governance and performance of strategic alliances; customer-centric marketing in Africa; and the intellectual development of the Journal of African Business as the premier research outlet for African business since its inception in 2000. Each chapter offers a cogently differentiated perspective about business growth or business knowledge development in Africa.
Made up of contributions which are vividly and ingeniously written to be accessible to decision-makers and other non-experts, this book will be of interest to all those researching the development of business in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of African Business.
Simon P. Sigu is a Professor of Marketing at Athabasca University, Canada, and the President of the Academy of African Business and Development. Under his editorship, the Journal of African Business was included in the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), the ABS, and the ABDC lists of accredited journals.
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The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of African Business, volume 20, issue 2 (May 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
In Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Journal of African Business
Simon P. Sigu
Journal of African Business, volume 20, issue 2 (May 2019) pp. 155159
Abdul Fatawu Abass is a Research Officer at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana.
Simplice A. Asongu is Lead Economist and Director of the Research Department of the African Governance and Development Institute, Cameroon, and a Senior Research Consultant in the Department of Economics at the University of South Africa.
Altante Dsire Biboum is a Professor in the Marketing Management Department in the Faculty of Economics and Management at Douala University, Cameroon.
Charlene A. Dadzie is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Quantitative Methods at the Mitchell College of Business at the University of South Alabama, USA.
Kofi Q. Dadzie is an Associate Professor at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, USA.
Augustin Kwasi Fosu is a Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. He is also an Extraordinary Professor in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (FEMS) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at the University of Oxford, UK.