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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Institutional voids"”.
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Supply chain innovations & firm strategy: pathways to manage institutional voids in emerging markets. Case study of manufacturing firms in Uganda
… emerging or growing market. However, due to institutional voids, the manufacturing industry has come under pressure, which has impacted manufacturing firms' operational efficiencies. The overarching purpose of this study was to investigate why and how manufacturing firms in Uganda should …
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Tata in Africa : where to next?
… operational innovations.In African countries, institutional voids exist — the absence of conventional mechanisms that make business work — which present a significant challenge for businesses operating on the continent. The objective of this case study is to understand how Tata has had to adapt …
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Enhancing resilience in South African small and medium enterprises: a dynamic capabilities perspective
… emerging markets, where they confront persistent institutional challenges, is crucial for their ability to survive and thrive in such complex environments. South Africa contends with many challenges, including institutional voids that manifest in various ways, such as electricity blackouts and …
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How host country institutional environments influence the digital transformation objectives of multinational subsidiaries operating in emerging markets
… local inadequacies create domestic intuitional voids. A multi-site case study was used to compare the effects that host country institutional voids had on digital transformation and how multinational subsidiaries in six African countries overcame those effects in their respective markets. Data …
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Transformation of rural space from an institutional perspective. Socio-economic development and land use change in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
… 2006 and 2010, this study examines institutions, institutional voids and institutional change concerning land-use in the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve. Combining socio-economic and ecological data, patterns of land-use change and their interrelation to local communities are …
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Exploring emerging market multinational enterprises' divestment from emerging markets
… three perspectives: host country turbulence and institutional voids leading to divestment, home country's institutional weakness influencing divestment and firm-related challenges influences on divestment. In conjunction with this, it then separately discusses the divestment approaches or …
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A strategic framework for establishing aerospace value chains in emerging markets
… that can help organizations identify the institutional voids existing in Emerging markets and Aerospace sector as a system. An introduction to Aerospace manufacturing and the emerging markets help understand the advantages and disadvantages. The framework is able to do a thorough …
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Frontier market analysis : a case study of Iraq's real estate industry
… that may not necessarily adhere to familiar institutional, legal or even ethical norms. Strategists may never feel informed enough to make educated decisions because there is not enough data to populate sophisticated financial models. However investors and multinationals have a growing desire …
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Resilience of Entrepreneurs in Conflict Zones: Evidence from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine
… where there is violent conflict and substantial institutional deficiencies, entrepreneurial activity increases as self-employment becomes a necessary survival and coping mechanism and strategy. Women within context affected by long-term conflict are also more likely to engage in entrepreneurship …
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Institutional and Social Factors Influencing Informal Sector Activity in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Nigerian Case Study
… IS operators in SSA. Specifically relying on the institutional, social exclusion, and personality trait theoretical frameworks, the study demonstrates how a combination of separate yet related phenomena of personality traits, institutional factors, and more importantly, situational factors that …
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Comparative Study of the Impact of Compliance with Corporate Governance Regulations & Internal Governance Mechanisms on Financial Performance of Listed Firms in Africa
… approach and more importantly New Institutional Economics (NIE) theory, this study shows that cultural, contextual and institutional similarities and differences in corporate governance mechanisms across different countries impact differently on firm-level behaviour, which affects …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF FIRM RESPONSES TO RAPID VS. CONTINUOUS INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: DYNAMIC VIEW OF FIRM PERFORMANCE AT POST-ENTRY
… in emerging countries and the changing institutional environment in those contexts. To study changes occurring in different speeds and varying firm responses to them, I have hand-collected longitudinal datasets for different industries and employed both qualitative and quantitative …
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The form and use of social capital among foreign direct investors in their interactions with locals in Northern Laos
… knowhow and expertise; to navigate legal and institutional voids; to gain access to decision-makers; and to form strategic and durable exchange relationships with committed and reliable partners. Lao social capital can basically be viewed as an arrangement that enables holders to pull all the …