Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review and summarizes the articles that were accepted for the special issue focusing on "Advancing Africa through management know[...]

The business strategy perspective argues that achieving competitive advantage hinges on pursing a coherent competitive strategy. Family businesses are also said to manife[...]

This paper examines the impact of the implementation of competitive strategy on organizational performance in response to economic liberalization policies using survey da[...]

This paper models the sustainability of firm abnormal profitability and uses the effectiveness of corporate management capabilities as a test to examine its impact on the[...]

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) economies have established stock markets to encourage the mobilization of domestic funds and attract foreign capital in-flows for corporate inves[...]

Purpose: Service recovery strategies are efforts used by organizations to bring back dissatisfied customers to a state of satisfaction with the organization. It has been [...]

This article contributes to the literature on cross-cultural leadership by describing the development and validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Dia[...]

This study compares the influence of perceived procedural justice, interactional justice, and mutual commitment on the human factor in Ghana and India. The study further [...]

This study examines the performance implications of implementing generic competitive strategies, and whether the implementation of a combination competitive strategy yiel[...]

The economic liberalization policies being implemented by many African economies have led to significant efficiency and performance improvements in the activities of priv[...]

The authors examine the direct and moderating effects of firm-specific managerial experience on the relationship between social capital and performance. Using data from G[...]

This paper focuses on how managerial networking relationships developed with external entities affect organizational performance using survey data from organizations in G[...]

This study examines the competitive strategic choices of international joint ventures (IJVs) and their performance implications in a low-income emerging economy in Sub-Sa[...]

Using a dynamic heterogeneous panel data model, we examine the relationship between firm-specific resources (corporate management capabilities, employee value-added and t[...]

The conventional wisdom from studies in both advanced Western economies and emerging economies indicate that managerial networking relationships matter. This article exam[...]

This article compared the relationships among management control systems (MCS), business strategy and firm performance in family businesses (FBs) and non-family businesse[...]

This study replicates and extends previous research focusing on China, to a sub-Saharan African emerging economy environment. Specifically, the study directly replicates [...]

This paper examines the relationship between manufacturing strategy and competitive strategy and their influence on firm performance. We test how competitive strategy inf[...]

Corporate reputation activities have been shown to be a predictor of and a response to strategic organizational activities and outcomes. However, relatively little is kno[...]

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance effects of pure innovation strategies (creative and imitative) versus the combination of the two inno[...]

Economic recessions that affect firms regardless of location, increased competition and changes in customer expectations, all contribute to disruptions that require firms[...]

The effect of social networking relationships, firm-specific managerial experience, and their interactions on performance between family owned and nonfamily firms are stu[...]

The underrepresentation of women in top leadership roles and the existence of the gender pay gap among top executives are well-documented phenomena. Many studies have del[...]

This study investigates the utilization of managerial networking relationships with social and political entities to create social capital in family-owned and nonfamily f[...]