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Why are productive, development-supporting relations between business and government still so rare in Africa? Scott Taylor addresses this question, examining state-business coalitions as they emerge, and endure or collapse, in three representative countries: Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Taylor illuminates three possible trajectories: an abortive state-business coalition, as in Zambia; the emergence of a short-lived coalition, as in Zimbabwe; and a relatively successful and thus far durable coalition, as in South Africa. Though rooted in the southern African experience, his cases reflect much of the variance in outcomes throughout sub-Saharan Africa and shed light on the prospects for economic reform and development on the continent

Can Africa develop businesses beyond the extractive or agricultural sectors? What would it take for Africa to play a major role in global business? By focusing on recent changes, Scott D. Taylor demonstrates how Africa's business culture is marked by an unprecedented receptivity to private enterprise. Challenging persistent stereotypes about crony capitalism and the lack of development, Taylor reveals a long and dynamic history of business in Africa. He shows how a hospitable climate for business has been spurred by institutional change, globalization, and political and economic reform

A new study of Chinese projects in one African nation offers a nuanced picture of a distinct type of state-led foreign investment often caricatured as a rapacious new form of imperialism.

Formal institutions such as business chambers have been assumed to be a key indicator of the health of state-business relations (SBR). Yet in Africa these organizations have seldom risen to the level of access and influence enjoyed by some of their counterparts elsewhere in the developing world. A number of recent studies of SBR in Africa continue to overstate the importance of business associations (BAs). Yet despite the widespread marginality of BAs in Africa, the receptiveness of African states to leading firms and business interests has increased markedly. While this poses certain risks of increased corruption, collusion and monopoly, the institutional and political environment for doing business has also improved, thereby fostering new opportunities for further business-related growth and business sector development among bona fide firms. Drawing on evidence from Zambia and elsewhere, this paper finds that the benefits provided to individual firms who enjoy state access can, paradoxically, contribute to an improved environment for other private sector actors whose interests are directly represented only in moribund formal associations. Even without strong BAs, when aided by the state, individual firms, and/or international actors, Africa's improved business environment has a salutary impact on growth.

This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with objects of production and consumption. The book explores the significance of raw materials, the relationship between the body, the crafted object and the mind, and the importance of skill, knowledge and learning in the making process. Through this, it raises important questions about the role of craft in facing future challenges by challenging the logic of globalized production and consumption. The Organization of Craft Work encompasses international analyses from the United States, France, Italy, Australia, Canada, the UK and Japan involving a diverse range of sectors, including brewing, food and wine production, clothing and shoe making, and perfumery. The book will be of interest to students and academic researchers in organization studies, marketing and consumer behaviour, business ethics, entrepreneurship, sociology of work, human resource management, cultural studies, geography, and fashion and design. In addition, the book will be of interest to practitioners and organizations with an interest in the development and promotion of craft work.

Craft in japan / Robin Holt and Yutaka Yamauchi -- Crafted in America : from culture to profession / Shelby Solomon and Blake Mathias -- Wine, the authenticity taste regime and rendering craft / Jennifer Smith Maguire -- Organising the home as making space: crafting scale, identity, and boundary contestation / Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew -- Smells like craft spirit: craft as empowerment and social movement in niche perfumery / Claus Noppeney and Nada Endrissat -- Deploying social memory for international recognition : the role of place and tradition in an Italian silk tie maker / Maria Laura Toraldo, Stefano Consiglio and Gianluigi Mangia -- Back to the brewster : craft brewing, gender and the dialectical interplay of retraditionalisation and innovation / Chris Land, Neil Sutherland and Scott Taylor -- Craft as a contested term : meaning diversities between entrepreneurs and consumers in the craft-brewing industry / Nadine Waehning, Maria Karampela and Juho Pesonen -- Making livelihoods within communities of practice : the place of guild organisations in the craft sector / Nicola J. Thomas and Doreen Jakob -- The cordwainers lair : contingency in bespoke shoemaking / Robert Ott -- Craft as resistance : a conversation about craftivism, embodied enquiry and craft-based methodologies / Ann Rippin and Sheena J. Vachhani -- Being maker-centric : making as method for self-organization and achieving craft impact in local communities and economies / Fiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo, Laura Onions, Gavin Rogers and Jana Milovanovic -- Reflecting on the relationship between craft and history : perspectives, resources and contemporary implications / Richard Blundell -- The future of craft / Malcolm Ferris -- Index