Ferns, George, and Kenneth Amaeshi. “Rethinking African Business Elites as Change Agents.” In Routledge Handbook of Organizational Change in Africa, 1st ed., 158–75. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315630113-10.

The authors provide an alternative understanding of business elites as pro-social change agents by exploring how a growing fraction of elites are attempting to directly stimulate economic development. They present a typology of business elites as change agents by distinguishing between the level of change they engage in (systemic vs. small-scale) and the extent to which they utilise their own business ventures to drive change (integrated vs. separated). They suggest a conceptual framework that identifies four change agent types: Visionaries, Philanthropists, Corporates, and Change Leaders and provide several propositions in terms of how African business elites may potentially evolve into Change Leaders.

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