The purpose of this paper is to highlight the duality in the appeal of UK higher education degrees vis-à-vis the poor perception of African degrees (notably the Nigerian degree). We relied upon an online focus group of African academics and professionals outside the UK, in a bid to provide...

This article is crafted as a compendium of scholarly contributions debating the main challenges facing one of Africa’s largest economies – South Africa – cutting across a range of sectors from electricity generation and public sector performance, to the private sector management on the...

Research has suggested that the United Arab Emirates is very competitive in the global higher education market. This raises questions as to whether its competitive advantage should be emphasised at the local, as opposed to global content in the instruction curriculum. In other words should the...

This viewpoint paper assesses the place of Indian B-Schools, and especially the MBA, within the context of the global economy. The study highlights the trend in MBA provision in India with a view to exploring how MBA graduates may be better equipped, and positioned, to take up managerial...

The 'horsemeat scandal' that engulfed most of Europe in 2013 raises some interesting customer behaviour questions (Xie, Bagozzi, & Østli, 2013), with further implications for business relationships involving multiple buyers and a single supplier. This meta-analytical study explores these...

The purpose of this exploratory study is to highlight the potential of sports and especially football as nation branding tool. Taking the particular case of a developing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) country, Thailand, which has been embroiled in a catalogue of negative brand...

This paper presents a radical departure from what is now replete, and well documented in the literature - i.e. ‘mom and pop’ shops in European migrant populations. Rather our focus is on budding returnee migrants, and transnational entrepreneurs, who have navigated away from traditional...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the strategies undertaken by “entrepreneurial” universities to leverage their bottom-line especially in response to withdrawals of public funding. Internationalisation has been the most prominent from setting-up overseas branch campuses...

This paper discusses the findings of a study conducted in Kampala, Uganda, which evaluated the cultural dynamics at play among microenterprises. A cross section of 120 informal businesses was surveyed between November 2006 and March 2007. A mixture of focus group interviews and self-administered...

This exploratory article highlights developments in the African (defined to include sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa) mobile telephony market. While observing the renewed pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) from and to emerging markets in a value-added sector (mobile telecoms), this...