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This chapter provides a summarised account of the journey that was undertaken into real life cases in order to gain a better understanding of organisations and teams in the sub-Saharan African setting. Three organisations were studied in Nigeria and one innovation team in each of these organisations was in the focus of this study.
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See Adigun (1995) and Jackson (2004).
Enahoro (1996), p. xi.
Jackson (2004), p. 195.
To minimise the possibility of societal rank-orderings being over-interpreted, the GLOBE scholars group societal scores into bands, whereby the scores within one band are considered to be not significantly different (see Hanges et al (2004), pp. 219–221). To simplify understanding here, the labels “high”, “medium-high”, “medium”, “medium-low”, “low” indicate where a society is positioned on a certain dimension relative to the total range of scores on this dimension.
See special on doing business in Nigeria on <http://www.moosewood.com/OpAfrica/giant>, August 2006.
Nigeria is the overall highest scoring country for Humane Orientation values, see Kabasakal and Bodur (2004), p. 574.
According to Den Hartog (2004), there is a strong negative correlation between Assertiveness practices and Humane Orientation practices.
Obi (2004).
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Interesting exceptions initiating thoughts on indigenous methods of management are Ahiauzu (1989) and Eze (1989).
Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (1997), after mapping the cultures in South Africa according to their seven-dimensional model, confirmed that South Africa is “one of the most pluralist societies in the world” (p. 212), which can be seen as “a microcosm of the world” (p. 213).
For cultural descriptions of different ethnic groups in South Africa, see Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (1997), Chapter 14.
To minimise the possibility of societal rank-orderings being over-interpreted, the GLOBE scholars group societal scores into bands. The scores within a particular band are considered as not being meaningfully different (See Hanges et al. (2004), pp. 219–221). To simplify understanding here, the labels “high”, “medium-high”, “medium”, “medium-low” and “low” indicate where a society is positioned on a certain dimension relative to the total range of scores on this dimension.
Richmond and Gestrin (1998), p. 208.
E.g. Richmond and Gestrin (1998).
A social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination was enforced by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
Richmond and Gestrin (1998), p.208.
Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (1997), p. 215.
Jackson (2004), p. 254.
Ibid.
Jackson (2004), pp. 250–251.
Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (1997), p. 220.
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(2007). Case Studies. In: Teamwork for Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa. DUV. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-9588-5_5
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