The political realities of African management |
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| Institution: | 1. Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Sociology, Kochstr. 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany;2. University of Nottingham, School of Education, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, United Kingdom;1. Faculty of History and African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;2. Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa;3. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway;4. Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa;1. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa;2. Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa;1. Centre for Environmental Research and Impact Studies, University of Bucharest, Nicolae Balcescu 1, 010041 Bucharest, Romania;2. Ecosystem Services Laboratory, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Matei Corvin 4, 400112 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;3. Swiss Federal Research Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape, Landscape Dynamics, Zürcherstrasse 11, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;1. Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, Copenhagen 2450, Denmark;2. Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Frederik A Dahls vei 15, KA-bygningen, Ås, Norway;3. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK;4. Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Skibbrogade 5, 1, Aalborg 9000, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | Amidst the outburst of concern for public management in Africa there is frequently a failure to distinguish among its components—policy-making, leadership, general internal administration and bureaucratic hygiene (accounting, procurement, the merit system, etc.). Each of these four areas is different in the importance that it has for project performance, the knowledge base that is available for improving it, and the way in which it is affected by African political and social structures. As a consequence those seeking to improve public management on the continent frequently are mistaken in the priorities that they establish and import inappropriate management technologies. |
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