The Lions Mark Their Territory
The African Thought System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20069764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadine Mendelek Theimann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 93-105 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Diversity in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230627536_6 |
| OpenAlex | W2465676136 |
| ISBN | 9780230627536 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
The causes of important aspects of African managers’ thinking are to be found in fundamental national sociocultural and political elements. African organizations function very often in an environment of acute resource scarcity, economic uncertainty and highly centralized political power. These organizations tend to retain the major characteristics of structures developed in the colonial era, namely, rather rigid bureaucratic, rule-bound hierarchies. During such times, managers were few in numbers and were mainly European traders who undertook economic activities with little, or no, knowledge of the art of management. The Africans, however, viewed these foreigners as experts in management, and tried hard to imitate their managerial skills. Colonialists, in order to maintain their dominance and elitist role in society, chose to import managers from Europe, rather than to train Africans
Bureaucracy · Business · Colonialism · Dominance (genetics) · Economic growth · Economics · Function (biology) · Market economy · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Scarcity · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |