N° 150 - December 2022 - What do we know about African businesses?

Issue editor:
Michel VILLETTE, Françoise CHEVALIER et Michel BERRY

Introduction

Michel VILLETTE, Françoise CHEVALIER et Michel BERRY

OVERLOOKED…

Labor intermediation in the local political arena: Local labor recruitment on the Nachtigal dam project in Cameroon

Simon Wuidar & Ludovic Bakebek.

What the reterritorialization dynamics of three franchised companies in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Ethiopia tell us about the complexity of African entrepreneurship

Roberta Rubino.

How traditional African firms work: A modeling attempt in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jean Biwolé Fouda & Geneviève Causse.

IN QUEST OF A THEORY

Decolonizing management: Between false debates and real controversies, the contributions of three thinkers from the ‟South”

Yves Livian.

TRIAL BY FACT

The reasons for the formalization of informal enterprises in African countries: A study of two enterprises in Niger

Istifanous Ado & Richard Soparnot.

Feedback on a university entrepreneurial project: The case of a Cameroonian business school

Emmanuel Kamdem & Blaise Marie Ouafo.

Africa in search of the “ideal manager”: What it means to run an “African” business

Serge Alain Godong.

MOSAICS

Hervé Dumez
“On Peter Robinson’s Flying Blind. The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing” (US: New York; Doubleday) 2021.

Nicolas Berland
“On Emmanuel Kamdem, Françoise Chevalier & Marielle A. Payaud’s La recherche enracinée en management. Contextes nouveaux et perspectives nouvelles en Afrique” (FR: EMS Éditions) 2020.

Michel Villette
“On Benjamin Rubbers’ Faire fortune en Afrique. Anthropologie des derniers colons du Katanga” (FR: Karthala) 2009.