IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-981-19-9479-1_18.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Development of a Growth-Strategy Support Model to Enable Cross-Border Expansion Stratagems

In: Business Research

Author

Listed:
  • Henco Plooy

    (North-West University)

  • Pieter W. Buys

    (North-West University)

Abstract

The lack of proximity between economic agents in Africa and the rest of the world is compounded by regional instability, including pandemics and conflicts. Identifying these ever-changing challenges provides the foundational problem when desiring growth in such environments. Hence, the primary research objective of the study is to develop a growth-strategy support model (GSSM) to provide the requisite rigor when developing such growth strategies. This chapter elucidates the research method applied herein. The study embraced a realism framework utilizing SWOT and PESTLE techniques, built on the principles of stakeholder and stewardship theories. The results from the qualitative research, i.e., the semi-structured interviews, were weighted to align with predetermined organizational risk appetite and tolerance levels. Ultimately, taking cognizance of such risk appetite and tolerance, the envisaged model facilitates the analysis and ranking of pertinent risk factors. The conclusive findings confirmed medium risk, which, based on the predetermined risk profile, suggests the organization move to the next phase of its growth-strategy process.

Suggested Citation

  • Henco Plooy & Pieter W. Buys, 2023. "The Development of a Growth-Strategy Support Model to Enable Cross-Border Expansion Stratagems," Springer Books, in: Pieter W. Buys & Merwe Oberholzer (ed.), Business Research, chapter 0, pages 359-381, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-9479-1_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-9479-1_18
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Growth strategies; PESTLE analysis; Risk analysis; Risk appetite; Risk tolerance; SWOT analysis;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
    • M16 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - International Business Administration

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-9479-1_18. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.