"This book consists of articles selected by the editors from the papers presented at the 2008 and 2010 Leadership & Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa Conferences in Accra, Ghana, and Cape Town, South Africa. The conferences are arranged by a voluntary association of individuals interested in improving the leadership and management competencies of Africans in Africa. Volume II & III details the association's continuing efforts of empirical and theoretical research investigations and reviews of studies in the area. Topics discussed in Volumes II & III include gender and leadership, core leadership and management issues, problems in management and leadership education, and business and marketing competitiveness. The research data and theoretical concepts presented in the selected articles present a wealth of ideas and insight for reflection when planning for the future."

This book consists of articles selected by the editors from the papers presented at the 2006 Leadership & Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa Conferences in Stone Town, Zanzibar. Conferences are presented by a voluntary association of individuals interested in improving the leadership and management competencies of Africans. Volume I details the association s initial efforts consisting of empirical and theoretical research investigations and reviews of studies in the area. Topics discussed in Volume I range from core leadership issues, problems in management and leadership education, and business competitiveness to an exploration of the historical context of Sub-Sahara Africa. Coupled with the research data and theoretical concepts presented in the selected articles, Leadership & Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa, Volume I presents an in-depth look into the strategies directed to address these issues. Romie F. Littrell is Associate Professor of International Business at the AUT Business School of Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand and has more than thirty years of experience in the field of international affairs and marketing. His extensive studies of leadership and management in Africa are reflected in this collection of articles and papers. Prem Ramburuth is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Education at the Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. She has conducted expansive research and written on global management issues regarding diversity, expatriation, international affairs, and education. "

Private Enterprise-Led Development in Sub-Saharan Africa provides a novel theoretical and conceptual model to guide research into Africa's economic development. It endorses the view that private enterprise-led growth will help reduce poverty since it strengthens individuals' capacity to care for themselves and their families.

To effectively deliver sustainable management in practice for Africa, we need responsible leadership. We need to deepen our understanding of sustainability in the unique socio-political and economic context of the continent. The roles of various actors across public, private and non-profit sectors as enablers of sustainable development need to be explored to understand the social, economic and environmental (SEE) trends in Africa and its emerging and developing economies, as well as to chart the way forward for the continent. This second volume explores the roles and responsibilities of the players—leaders and followers—in the core, public purpose and business spheres in delivering sustainable development outcomes for Africa. Drawing on interviews, cases and extensive literature, this volume contributes to reflection on the leadership values and practices required for a sustainable Africa and the crafting of new policy approaches to address the development challenges such as environmental degradation, economic inequities and social exclusion in Africa. The African scope of the book is hinged on collaboration from authors across Africa and the inclusion of case stories from emerging economies in the five African subregions (East, West, North, Central and Southern Africa) within the chapters. The core message is that, to achieve effective and sustainable management and development for Africa, the practice of responsible leadership is critical.

The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international aid. But how appropriate are these ideas, tools, and techniques for non-governmental development organizations (NGOs), and how much does geographic context matter? Examining the current debate on aid effectiveness and the role of NGOs in contributing to it, this book highlights the critical importance of understanding how the global and the local interact to increase aid efficacy and develop more culturally astute ways of managing NGOs. With a focus on NGOs active in sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, author Frederik Claeyé demonstrates that NGOs are not mere passive recipients of management knowledge and practices emanating from the global governance structure of international aid, but actively engage with these ideas and practices to translate and rework them through a local cultural lens. This process results in the emergence of unique hybrid management systems that combine the pressure to become more business-like with the mission to satisfy the demands of the communities they serve.