Using social practice approaches for strategic management research in Africa: an example, design considerations and potential contributions

IF 1.6 Q4 MANAGEMENT Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2021.1902212

William Phanuel Kofi Darbi, Stanley Coffie

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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.

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利用社会实践方法进行非洲战略管理研究：一个例子、设计考虑因素和潜在贡献

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。对发展、调整和扩展管理概念、理论和实践的巨大机遇的认识已成为热门话题。到目前为止，学者们已经做出了回应，一个以非洲为中心的管理和组织知识正在前所未有地逐步建立起来。迄今为止在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、更细致入微、更关系化和更社会化的策略作为实践研究方法，该方法更适合于将策略作为一种社会实践来考察。现有的研究为以非洲为中心的管理研究的必要性和价值提出了论点（原因），当前的论文更加突出了以非洲为重点的管理学术议程的研究方法的重要性（如何）。该论文具体阐述了一种受社会实践启发的研究方法，用于非洲战略管理理论化。

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.