The Africa we want and the Africa we see : how scholarship from Africa stands to enrich global scholarship

dc.contributor.authorBarnard, Helena
dc.contributor.emailbarnardh@gibs.co.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-02T09:26:28Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis paper grew out of a keynote I delivered at the Academy of International Business Africa chapter meeting in Ghana, 2019, and was further honed in the review process. I share how emotionally challenging I sometimes find it to be a scholar of Africa, and some insights I have gained over time about meeting that challenge. Our work is strengthened when we honestly document what we find, using both scientific principles and global scholarship to guide us. But our scholarship can also enrich research globally in three ways: Insights we gain from our extreme conditions, our greater opportunities to study some phenomena, e.g. faith in business, and finally because Africans sometimes simply see things differently, e.g. African understandings of how the workplace relates to personal circumstances. I offer examples of how we can deal with the data challenges in Africa. We need to explain more carefully our setting to help readers from other contexts understand ours. We do not always recognize or play to our data strengths, and sometimes need to innovate evidence. I conclude by reiterating the need to combine an honest documentation of what we see from our African vantage point with a deep knowledge of current global scholarship.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en_ZA
dc.description.embargo2021-11-15
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rajm20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBarnard, H. 2020, 'The Africa we want and the Africa we see: How scholarship from Africa stands to enrich global scholarship', Africa Journal of Management, 6(2): 132-143. doi: 10.1080/23322373.2020.1753493. : 10.1080/23322373.2020.1753493. NYP.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2332-2373 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2332-2381 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/23322373.2020.1753493
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/74825
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherNISC Pty (Ltd) and Informa Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group)en_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 Africa Academy of Management. This is an electronic version of an article published in Africa Journal of Management, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 132-143, 2020, doi: 10.1080/23322373.2020.1753493. Africa Journal of Management is available online at : https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rajm20.en_ZA
dc.subjectGlobal scholarshipen_ZA
dc.subjectScholar of Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectScholarshipen_ZA
dc.subjectEmerging economyen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican managementen_ZA
dc.subjectData povertyen_ZA
dc.subjectData innovationen_ZA
dc.titleThe Africa we want and the Africa we see : how scholarship from Africa stands to enrich global scholarshipen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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