Research and Positive Impact: Henley Business School in the African Context

Abstract

Business does not exist in a vacuum; it is intrinsically linked to the success or failure of the society in which it operates. On a continent like Africa, where social, environmental and historical challenges abound, issues such as inequality, poverty and inclusive growth continue to dominate the context. As the first business school in Africa to receive the Association of African Business Schools accreditation, Henley Business School Africa has long called for the decolonisation of education in Africa and of helping African institutions, African researchers and African academics to find their own voice. Similarly other institutions, such as the European Foundation for Management Development and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business as well as African business schools like Lagos Business School in Nigeria and South Africa’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and Stellenbosch Business School, have also argued along similar lines.