This book aims to provide an understanding of how these dynamic enterprise clusters in Africa were formed and have evolved, and how knowledge, human capital, and technology have contributed to their success. These case studies from Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda will be of interest to a broad range of development professionals.
Dragons at your door exposes the strategies, strengths, and limitations of these fast-rising competitors and surfaces the logic enabling them to attack high end industries. By leveraging new possibilities opened up by globalization, say Ming Zeng and Peter Williamson, the Chinese are challenging the status quo faster and on a much larger scale than the Japanese and Korean companies that came be…