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Culture-specific management and the African management movement: A critical review of the literature

Adèle Thomas, Johann S. Schonken
South African Journal of Business Management | Vol 29, No 2 | a771 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v29i2.771 | © 2018 Adele Thomas, Johann S. Schonken | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 12 October 2018 | Published: 30 June 1998

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Adèle Thomas, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Johann S. Schonken, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Abstract

In recent years a school of thought has emerged in South Africa, which proposes that, along with the new political dispensation, African values and African culture should be incorporated into South African business practice. This so-called African management movement bases its assumptions and recommendations on various contemporary South African writers and also draws heavily on a theoretical model advocated by Lessem. This article argues that thinking in this field has not been empirically derived and contrasts Lessem's model to the more empirically-formulated one of Hofstede.

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