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Seriki, H. T. (2007): "Teamwork for Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Innovation is an essential success
factor needed to ensure and extend the competitiveness of organisations.
The quality of teamwork plays an important role as it determines the
success of innovation teams.
Whereas most insights concerning the dynamics of work groups come from
North American or Western European environments, Hannah Titilayo Seriki
concentrates on teams operating within the complex societal context of
sub-Saharan Africa. The author develops a multi-level theory of African
teams’ innovative performance and regards the team as a sub-system of
the organisation, which is subjected to societal influences. She
compares the insights gained from case studies in Nigeria and in South
Africa with findings from two Germanic European cases. The results of
her study imply that managers can actively and consciously influence the
way their organisations pass on societal forces to their sub-units.
Distinct differences between European and African cases are found,
especially in the areas of team leadership and motivation.
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