Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa : From Patrimonialism to Profit /

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Can Africa develop businesses beyond the extractive or agricultural sectors? What would it take for Africa to play a major role in global business? By focusing on recent changes, Scott D. Taylor demonstrates how Africa's business culture is marked by an unprecedented receptivity to private ente...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Scott D., 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Unternehmenspolitik
Unternehmenskultur
Kapitalismus
Globalisierung
Auslandsinvestition
Investments, Foreign.
Globalization.
Capitalism.
Business enterprises.
Big business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
Grandes entreprises > Afrique subsaharienne.
Investissements etrangers > Afrique subsaharienne.
Mondialisation > Afrique subsaharienne.
Entreprises > Afrique subsaharienne.
Big business > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Investments, Foreign > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Capitalism > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Globalization > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Business enterprises > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Afrika
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • African business and capitalism in historical perspective
  • Institutional change in the 1990s : economic and political reform
  • Business, the African state, and globalization in the new millennium : transnational influences and domestic responses
  • Foreign investment beyond compradorism and primary commodities : the role of the global South
  • From patrimonialism to profit? : the transformation of crony capitalists and bureaucratic bourgeoisies
  • Going continental, going global : Africa's corporate "giants."

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