This book deals with management problems in firms in mixed economy, mainly located in anglophone West Africa, with a strong emphasis on Nigeria. In terms of category of employer, the papers refer mainly to private indigenous and to multinational firms, encompassing both Euro-American and Third...

By the mid-1970s, in virtually all of Africa, strategies of modernization and technology transfer had clearly failed to initiate self-sustained processes of development. Government intervention and centralized planning had spurred economic disaster, rather than growth. In the world of finance,...