Impact of Culture on the Transfer of Management Practices in Former British Colonies

About the Book

In this book, ‘Impact of Culture on the Transfer of Management Practices in a Former British Colonies: Cadbury, Nigeria’, Dr. Olusoji George deals with a number of these issues head on. In particular, he has highlighted two elements largely ignored in the international management literature: first, colonial (political and economic forms) and their encounters with pre-existing employment management practices and secondly, emergent, post-colonial influences on ‘modern’ management. The hybrid systems that emerge in many postcolonial, developing economies, Dr. George argues, are best investigated by delving deep into the historical antecedents of management practices. It is at the intersection between colonised and coloniser, and attempts to reconcile the injustices created within colonial systems (as well as attempts to create specific ethnic and tribal balance within colonial systems) that the legacy that independent, but postcolonial nations may struggle to reconcile may be found. Through an in-depth analysis based on a major corporation in West Africa, specifically Cadbury Nigeria, evolving practices, grounded in colonial and commercial objectives bring into sharp focus the veracity of the central historical features of the proposition made by Dr. George.

About the Author

I graduated from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria with a BSc (Hons.) in Sociology in 1979, a MSc (Industrial Sociology) from the same university in 1981. I moved to the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1983. I submitted my M.Pil dissertation in 1985. I worked with various companies in Nigeria and South Africa which cumulated in my becoming the Managing Director/CEO of Friendship Reward (Nigeria) Ltd in 1989 and of Friendship Reward (SA) Pty 1993 as well as the Senior Partner of J. Soji-George & Co. (Management Consultants) in 2001. I worked as a doctoral researcher in the UK, and was awarded a PhD in Management from the University of Bradford in 2010. I have authored many articles in international journals.