Corporate Governance and the African business context: The Case of Nigeria

• Authors: Letza Steve

Abstracts

EN

A robust institutional framework is essential to enable firms to function efficiently. The aspect of corporate governance investigated in this paper is the legal and societal principles and process which form the business context within which firms operate. The paper explores the challenges to firms trading in Africa arising from cultural dynamics peculiar to the continent and further explores the historical reasons for the present cultural context to business in Africa. Nigeria is presented as a special case, perhaps even an extreme case, of the challenges to corporate governance in Africa since it is perceived by many to be one of the weaker environments given its perceived levels of corruption. The paper concludes with an assessment of the likelihood of African states successfully tackling corruption in the future as the current approaches unfold over the coming years.

Keywords

EN

Corporate governance; corruption; Africa

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu
• Journal: Economics and Business Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 3(17)
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2017-03-30

Contributors

author

Letza Steve

• Bournemouth University, Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University, 89 Holdenhurst Road, BH8 8EB

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18559/ebr.2017.1.10