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Institutional Voids, Investment Purposes, And Foreign Subsidiaries Of Multinational Enterprises, Yamlaksira S. Getachew
Institutional Voids, Investment Purposes, And Foreign Subsidiaries Of Multinational Enterprises, Yamlaksira S. Getachew
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This dissertation is motivated by two sets of research questions: (a) Whether, how, and when host-country market and institutional conditions have implications for the performance of foreign subsidiaries? And (b) Whether, how, and when investment purposes/motives for which foreign subsidiaries are established relate to the extent to which the subsidiaries/their parents overcome the hazards of or capitalize on the opportunities from operating in locations of high institutional voids?
The first essay examines how the decision to enter African markets relates to the exit probability of MNE subsidiaries. Using a longitudinal, paired-sample design of Japanese foreign subsidiaries operating in …
"My Friends, They Are People To Rely On": The Social Foundation Of Business In Ghana, Patrick D. Shulist
"My Friends, They Are People To Rely On": The Social Foundation Of Business In Ghana, Patrick D. Shulist
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The management and entrepreneurship literatures increasingly engage in poverty alleviation research in the developing world. However, there is a marked tendency to overlook how the Western World, from where most theory comes, differs from the developing world. Such a fallacy has potential deleterious effects on the research itself, but more importantly on the practical applications of that research.
With this in mind, my dissertation uses an inductive qualitative methodology to explore the nature of self-employment in the developing world as it is; that is, not coloured by theoretical priors. In doing this, I lay the groundwork for understanding the …