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Latecomer challenge: African Multinationals from the periphery

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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 61, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    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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