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Latecomer challenge: African Multinationals from the periphery

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  • Grietjie Verhoef

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Multinationals from emerging markets display different characteristics from the early multinationals from the first world. The growing trend of internationalisation of business from Africa trails the trend from East and South East Asia. Recently outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) flows from Africa is rising. The OFDI from Southern Africa constitutes the largest proportion of OFDI […]

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  • Grietjie Verhoef, 2016. "Latecomer challenge: African Multinationals from the periphery," Working Papers 570, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    1. Kevin I.N. Ibeh, . "Why do African multinationals invest outside their home region? Should they?," UNCTAD Transnational Corporations Journal, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
    2. Ibeh, Kevin & Makhmadshoev, Dilshod, 2018. "Post-acquisition integration behavior of nascent African multinational enterprises," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 255-267.
    3. Judit Kiss, 2017. "South Africa - a re-emerging player in outward FDI," IWE Working Papers 235, Institute for World Economics - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
    4. Teboho Bosiu & Thando Vilakazi, 2020. "Competition and inclusive regional economic growth in food production: Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporations," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-88, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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    Keywords

    Africa; Consumer Behavior; Globalization; International Organization; International trade; Marketing;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F6 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization
    • F62 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Macroeconomic Impacts
    • F69 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Other
    • M16 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - International Business Administration
    • N17 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Africa; Oceania
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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