This research addresses the problem: How do cross-cultural influences affect interorganisational formation and maintenance international business networks? In particular, the two concepts of stages of network development and psychic distance in partner selection are explored. A partnership...

Could Total Quality Management (TQM) provide the "reconceptualisation" of management required in Africa? TQM is a coherent, established management framework, and the collectivism and high power distance culture of African countries might match the internal customers' teamwork of TQM's quality...