Last modified: 2019-07-24
Abstract
Scholarship on ethical leadership is vast. However, scholarship at the interface of ethics, leadership and organization in Sub-Saharan Africa is still scarce. We draw from literature about leadership in Africa to (a) identify three research streams (functional, cultural, and critical) and (b) use these streams to make sense of research on ethics, organization and leadership in Africa, as well as to analyze opportunities for future research. We argue that more paradigmatically diverse research on Africa may be doubly important: it can allow for the development of textured theories on the context as well as open possibilities for revitalizing organization theory.
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