ABSTRACT

African management theories and practices have received scant scholarly attention in organization and management literature. The recognition for vast opportunities for developing, adapting and extending management concepts, theories and practices in situ has become topical. Scholars have responded thus far, as a bourgeoning body of Africa-centric management and organization knowledge is gradually building as never before. The modest strides made to date covering research approaches are currently limited. By reference to an empirical study this paper explicates a more qualitative, nuanced, relational, and socialized strategy-as-practice research approach that is better attuned to examining strategy as a social practice in context. Extant studies have advanced arguments for the need and value in African-focused management research (the why), the current paper brings the salience of research approaches to the African-focused management scholarship agenda (the how) into sharper focus. The paper specifically, articulates a social practice-inspired research approach for theorizing strategic management in Africa.

摘要

非洲管理理论和实践在组织和管理文献中很少受到学术关注。认识到在现场开发、适应和扩展管理概念、理论和实践的巨大机会已经成为话题。到目前为止，学者们已经做出了回应，因为一个以非洲为中心的管理和组织知识正在以前所未有的方式逐渐建立起来。迄今为止，在涵盖研究方法方面取得的适度进展目前是有限的。通过参考一项实证研究，本文阐述了一种更定性、更细致、更相关、更社会化的策略即实践研究方法，它更适合将策略作为一种社会实践在上下文中进行检查。现有研究提出了以非洲为重点的管理研究的必要性和价值的论点（为什么），目前的论文将研究方法的显着性带到了以非洲为重点的管理奖学金议程（如何) 进入更清晰的焦点。该论文具体阐述了一种受社会实践启发的研究方法，用于将非洲的战略管理理论化。