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Summary WP1: Understanding the different theories of managing organizations in different cultural contexts and analysing the contexts of doing business and managing organizations in African and Arab countries Work package 1 (WP1) will address thefirst research objective of the ManaGlobal research project, which is: Toanalyse and compare the theories of managing organizations in differentcultural and business contexts from socio-economic, legal, political andorganizational perspectives. It will build the platform and sets the scene forthe empirical research that will be carried out in WP 2 and WP3. The work thatwill be undertaken in this work package is not just a review of the extentliterature but also a process of understanding the gaps and evaluating the theoreticalunderpinnings of the current management practices in different countries. Therefore,the findings from work package one (WP1) is critical to the development of thetheoretical framework which will be the basis for the methodological approachadopted in work package two (WP2) to understand the causes of business successand failure in Africa and the Arab countries.TheUniversity of Abertayin Dundee (UAD), Scotland, will lead the activities of this WP1 andcoordinate the tasks that will be assigned to teams of junior and senior researchers.The work will be carried out by teams of researchers mainly from the Southcoming to the North, as part of capacity building through participation inteaching and research activities and also because of access to libraryfacilities and research centres, under the supervision of experiencedresearchers. Starting from M3 to M18, each of the universities of the Northwill host a team of 2-5 researchers to carry out specific tasks under thesupervision of a local senior researcher, depending on their expertise in aparticular discipline. The team at UR2 will collect and review the relevantliterature on the socio-economic, legal and political contexts of doingbusiness and managing organizations. The team at the UAD will collect andreview the relevant literature on the major theories of business and managementand their applications in different socio-cultural contexts. The team at theUniMAN will collect and review the relevant literature on the studies ofdevelopment, economic growth and organizational change with a focus on Africaand Arab countries.Each of the teams stated abovewill be expected to review and analyse relevant secondary data from publishedand unpublished sources in order to: 1) understand the theories that weredeveloped mainly in the Western context but to also review and understand thetheories that are relevant to cross-cultural contexts; 2) identify significantgaps in the theorizing of business and management practices in non-westerncountries; and 3) analyse the socio-economic contexts in which businessorganizations operate in the global and local environment in order to make someresearch propositions and develop appropriate research methodologies for thestudy of business and management practices in selected companies in African andArab countries. At the end of their secondments,each team will be expected to produce at theoretical papers that exhibit atheoretical framework of analysis with a set of research questions or researchpropositions that will serve as the basis for the fieldwork research in WP2.The papers will be presented and debated at the first research seminar/conferencein Manchester in December 2019. Summary WP2: Profiling and learning from the careers of business leaders and managers in selected African and Arab Countries and linking them to national socio-economic particularities ManaGlobalresearch project seeks to understand the management practices of local andinternational enterprises in Africa and Arab countries. Work package 2 (WP2) ofthe research project addresses the second research objective of the project.The work package (WP2) investigates the business practices of selectedenterprises and the leadership styles and vision of selected firms in the SMEsector in five countries; namely, Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal, Morocco and UAE.Using ethnographic approach, the study charts the profile and journey of thebusiness enterprises and their leaders. Central to this investigation and themethodological approach adopted is to understand the causes of business successand failure in Africa and the Arab countries.The work package (W2) forms thefoundation for other work packages (WP3, WP4, WP5). The business practices andthe leadership style and vision of the leaders will shed light on how theireducation and training contribute to the success or failure of the businessenterprises in the countries under investigation (WP3). Similarly, one of theobjectives of the project is to develop a theoretical framework that will helpto understand business and management practices in the countries of the South. Therefore,the findings from work package two (WP2) are critical to the development of thetheoretical framework which will be the basis of designing training programmesand advising policy makers which is the key research objective of work packagefive (WP5).As part of the methodology, thiswork package (WP2) will examine and analyse profiles of business enterprisesand the leadership journeys of their leaders in the selected countries. Companyreports, websites, local newspapers and various document sources will be usedto establish a full picture of the business enterprises under investigation. Similarly,interviews with the leaders and key stakeholders in the business environmentwill be conducted to fully understand the kinds of business leaders and theirimpact on business enterprises. The analyses of the policies and policyenvironment that impact on the performance of business enterprises and theirleaders will also be investigated. The findings of this investigation shouldshed light on the gaps between the rhetoric and reality of doing business inAfrica and Arab countries. The results of this project should further our understandingof the degree of hybridization of management practices within the context ofglobalization. The study will also try to establish if there is something uniqueto African and Arab management in a globalized world which can further ourunderstanding of management generally.Summary WP3: Producing Ethnographic Business Studies: Methods, Theory and Practice.ThisWork package aims to produce a series of monographs of companies created in theUAE, Morocco, Senegal, Ghana, and Cameroon that contribute to the developmentof the country because of their strong growth and their ripple effect on therest of the economy. By"monograph", we mean a quantitative and qualitative study based onvarious sources: financial and accounting data, press reviews, interviews atall levels of the hierarchy from CIO to workers, observations at the workplace,interviews with partners such as consultants, auditors, bankers, customers,suppliers, and investors. Written documents may be supplemented by photographsand video recordings. Themonograph will present the company's history, its financial performance, thefactors that explain its growth, a comparison with its competitors(particularly subsidiaries of western multinationals), the wealth acquired bythe founding entrepreneur; and the analysis of the company's contributions tothe country's development. Ineach of the countries studied, it is planned to produce at least fivemonographs, namely a commercial company, an industrial company, a financialcompany, an agri-food company and a tourism company. Themonographs will result in the publication of a collective work and in comparativeand synthesis papers. They can be used in educational programmes to illustratethe way of doing business in African and Arab countries. SSummary WP4: Training, professional development and capacity buildingWe intend to develop acoherent offer of training, professional development and capacity building tothe benefit of all participants but especially young scholars, new managers andentrepreneurs. Combining skills and sharing competencies in doing research isone of our main priorities.Researchers will be involved regularly in graduate teaching, co-supervision ofPhDs and scientific activities within the universitystructures.Summer schools, workshops andtraining sessions will be organized throughout the duration of the project. Theycover methodological training, professional academic training, teachingexperiences and experience in fieldwork research as well as the supervision ofresearch students (Master and PhD). They will allow knowledge exchange andcareer development of all project members.Summer/winterschools (in Manchester, Accra, Dakar, Rabat and Bielefeld) and seminars areopen to members of the consortium as well as PhD and Master students, andbusiness leaders. A senior researcher will facilitate these courses withrelevant experience in this specificactivity. Each researcher will present his/her own work in a plenary sessionand will present papers in thethematic panels. These papers will circulate in advance. Both the senior researchers and the PhD students will perform therole of discussants of these papers.Professionalacademic training is planned which involves the interaction of managers,business leaders and officials with academics on sharing knowledge, experienceand expertise on the socio-economic, political, and legal contexts and theireffects on business and management in the countries involved in the project. Teaching: &#160;Experienced researchers and scholars fromFrance, Germany and the UK will contribute to teaching subjects from theirareas of expertise to undergraduate and postgraduate students during theirinternational mobility in the partner institutions.Visits toEuropean enterprises by researchers from the Third Countries and vice versa,with the objective of learning from different experiences, conducting fieldworkresearch and of encouraging similar dynamics in the participants’ owncountries. Supervision ofresearch students (Master and PhD) will be organized during their mobility tothe North for reviewing the literature and benefiting from the libraryfacilities in France, Germany and the UK and preparation of teaching materialand publications based on case studies and during the mobility from the Northto the South by experienced researchers and scholars to the partnerinstitutions. We will develop acurriculum for digital life-long learning at University Rennes 2 and eventuallya master programme. We will prepare teachingmaterial and videos for the utilization of Business Schools in the South. We willdevelop courses for the digital teaching in University Rennes 2.Summary WP 5: Communication and dissemination of research outcomes Webelieve that international staff mobility, research, training and thedevelopment of teaching and learning material will support an innovative andinter-disciplinary dialogue between those of the North and those of the South. Networkingis implicit in all the activities of the other work packages but will also beenhanced by international mobility to attend more workshops and seminarsoutside the ones scheduled above, to collaborate with other academics inwriting papers and presenting them at national and international seminars andconferences, and to contribute to the conferences organized within thisproject.Projectresults will be disseminated and communicated within national academic(scientific publications) and non-academic networks in each case study country,using the information published in scientific journals. All members of theproject will participate in national and international conferences. The ManaGlobal website will inform about the research and events of the project. Communication materials (project leaflets, flyers) will be accessible at the website.Due tothe current state of ManaGlobal communication between the academic andnon-academic participants and to a wider audience will entail workshops,summer-/winter schools and trainings, scientific publications, and manuals. The workshops address the participating researchers and business partners. They will cover topics like “Business and Management Scenarios in the Local Context in Arab and African countries South of the Sahara and the Challenges of Global Factors” or “Understanding, dealing with and exploring local business and management approaches in African and Arab countries”. The workshops are aiming at presenting and reflecting the research. They should give the floor to discuss the practical implications of the research. Five summer-/winter schools will be organized within the ManaGlobal network, taking place in Morocco, Ghana, Senegal, UK and Germany. Topics of the schools include “The state of the art of glocal management and governance in Africa and the Arab world and business research methods” or “Ethnographic research and methods of data analysis”. The audience will be the participating researchers and business partnerScientificpapers,edited volumes and research monographswill disseminate the results of the project to a wider scientific audience viapeer-reviewed publications. In particular, young scholars and post-docs fromthe partner universities are encouraged to author the publications. Manuals,policy papers, and handbookswith practical recommendations for business leaders will be developed in orderto address the needs of the non-academic partners. They are supposed to bedisseminated in the local context by the involved business associations.&#160; 