Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and summarizes the articles that were accepted for the special issue focusing on “Advancing Africa through management knowledge and practice”. The paper also provides suggestions for future research focus for researchers on management issues...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the invisibility of immigrants in diversity research in the management field. Design/methodology/approach – Reasons for the paucity of immigrant research, focusing on discrimination, exploitation, and abuse of low‐skilled Hispanic...

Purpose – As a result of the lack of reliable data, systematic research that informs public policy and practice from Ghana seems to be lacking. Although the World Bank's survey concerning Ghana's manufacturing sub‐sector has been available for some time now, yet little is known as regards...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider effective leadership in Africa and the African diaspora. This paper reports the results of emic research in Uganda, Barbados, Canada and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – A Delphi technique using open‐ended questions solicited ideas...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges impacting performance management implementation (PMI) in public universities in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach – The philosophy underpinning this study was the pragmatic world view. A mixed methods approach was adopted....

Purpose – Research investigating the internationalisation process of firms from Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) is limited. The purpose of this paper is to draw on extant work on internationalisation theory to propose an integrative framework that investigates the internationalisation process of...