Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Data statement -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Periodization -- 1.2 Terminology, company selection and country context -- 1.3 Decolonization and development -- 1.4 MNCs and the postcolonial transition during decolonization -- 1.5 Economic nationalism and expropriations -- 1.6 The postcolonial transition and Africanization -- 1.7 Legitimization strategies and the postcolonial transition -- Notes -- List of References -- 2. Organizational Legitimacy and the Development Discourse
2.1 Development ideology and British business -- 2.2 Redeployment and expansion -- 2.2.1 Redeployment -- 2.2.2 Bank expansion -- 2.3 Losing goodwill and corporate legitimacy -- 2.3.1 The crisis of development -- 2.3.2 Defending organizational legitimacy -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- List of References -- Part I: Managing Postcolonial Transitions Externally -- 3. Corporate Political Activities before and after Independence -- 3.1 Organizing business and political representation during decolonization -- 3.1.1 Commercial protests and colonial reform
3.1.2 The debate over public relations policy and the Gold Coast riots -- 3.1.3 Alternative forms of business representation -- 3.2 Legitimization strategies at the end of empire -- 3.2.1 Localization -- 3.2.2 Political networking -- 3.3 The development discourse after independence -- 3.3.1 Ghana -- 3.3.2 Nigeria -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- List of References -- 4. Indigenization Programmes and Organizational Legitimacy -- 4.1 Indigenizing business in Nigeria and Ghana -- 4.1.1 Ghana -- 4.1.2 Nigeria -- 4.2 Corporate responses to the indigenization programmes
4.2.1 Nationalism, localization and international banking -- 4.2.2 Responses to local participation at UAC and AGC -- 4.2.3 Acheampong's 'war on the economy' -- 4.2.4 The Nigerian Enterprise Promotion Decrees -- 4.3 The political economy of indigenization in Ghana and Nigeria -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- List of References -- Part II: Managing Postcolonial Transitions Internally -- 5. Africanization in Companies and the Civil Service -- 5.1 Why Africanize? -- 5.1.1 The civil service -- 5.1.2 UAC and the West African governments -- 5.2 Corporate Africanization
5.2.1 Commercial companies: UAC and Holt -- 5.2.2 Banking: Bank of British West Africa and Barclays -- 5.2.3 Mining: AGC -- 5.3 Africanization and corporate legitimization -- 5.3.1 Staff turnover -- 5.3.2 Ceilings -- 5.3.3 Salary structures -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- List of References -- 6. African Managers in British Businesses -- 6.1 Expatriates and Africans -- 6.1.1 Cultural and social distance -- 6.1.2 Staff training and Africanization -- 6.1.3 Trust and loyalty -- 6.2 African staff -- 6.2.1 The rise of African managers -- 6.2.2 Trade unions and African managers
