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Vers un modèle du management africain

1991, Cahiers d'études africaines

Abstract

A. Henry -Toward a Model of African Management. A gigantic problem: how to modernize African firms? Experts' recommendations, though reiterated, are hardly applied. Methods for managing industry serve not only to control technical facts but also to adjust the interplay of social forces. The validity of these methods depends, therefore, on their compatibility with customs and norms. The African firm described herein has succeeded because detailed written procedures sanctioned by an internai auditor are followed. These procedures, which owe much to modem organizational techniques, are adapted to the principles governing local society. In fact, they may be nothing other than a modem way of "reinterpreting" traditional values.