Achievement Orientation: A Case Study in Multinational Firms in Africa

Hans Dieter Seibel

Chapter 10 in Management Problems in Africa, 1986, pp 215-231 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There is a long-standing tradition assuming indigenous social structures, motivational dispositions and behaviour patterns in African societies to be impedimental to technological and social change. Technologies can be easily transferred, but sociocultural factors are thought to stand in the way of their effective usage. Up to the present both workers and indigenous managers in African countries are said to lack the proper orientations required for modern business enterprises.

Keywords: Industrial Society; American Sociological Review; Interview Study; Achievement Motive; Upward Mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05478-7_10

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