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Reverse Transfer of Industrial Relations

This article explores the transfer of ideas and practices from a developing country to a developed one, adapting Boisot's codification and diffusion of knowledge and cultures to British and Nigerian industrial relations (IR). A survey of British managers reveals that North-to-South transfers dominate IR knowledge, while South-to-North transfers are persistently constrained by ignorance, paucity of literature, ethnocentrism, romance with history and tradition, political unwillingness, complexity, and cultural discontinuities. Increasing publicity, afforded by greater publication in internationa…