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Political Risk and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment to Africa: The Role of Foreign Aid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Jane Lu --- Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, Australia Xueli Huang [cor1] Michael Muchiri --- School of Management, RMIT University, AustraliaWe investigated the role of Chinese Aid in mitigating the political risk for Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Africa, especially in resource-abundant countries. Using panel data for 50 African countries that have received Chinese OFDI from 2002 to... -
Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and knowledge flow in the context of emerging MNEs: Cases from China, India and South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Angathevar Baskaran --- Department of Development Studies, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Malaysia Ju Liu --- Faculty of Culture and Society, Sweden Hui Yan --- School of Management, Shanghai University, China Mammo Muchie --- SARChI (Innovation & Development), South AfricaThe paper explores the factors driving Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Emerging multinational enterprisess (EMNEs) and the patterns of knowledge transfer in six cases of EMNEs from three BRICS’ economies (India, China and South Africa). It found that there... -
A Multidimensional Approach to International Market Selection and Nation Branding in Sub-saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Andreas Schühly --- Strategy Consultant, Germany Helene Tenzer --- Department of International Business, GermanyDespite the strong economic growth of many African countries, foreign investors often overlook their potential. Nation branding can raise the awareness of foreign investors to the particular strengths of these countries. To identify the specific image attributes of a nation... -
Foreign direct investment flows and domestic investment in China: A multivariate time series analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Usman Ali --- Faculty of Management and Economics, China Jian-Jun Wang --- Faculty of Management and Economics, China Veronica Patricia Yanez Morales --- Faculty of Management and Economics, China Meng-Meng Wang --- Darla Moore School of Business, USAThis paper explores the effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investment in China using annual time series data over the period of 1982–2016. The empirical analysis is performed using ARDL bound testing procedure and fully... -
Values gaps affecting human resources management relations between expats and locals: The case of a Chinese manufacturer in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Yanyin Zi --- , Japan Arthur Linke --- , South AfricaChinese companies have continued to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) and engagement within Africa, perceived as a last global frontier market, particularly in light of China’s Belt and Road initiative. The literature highlights a number of human resources management (HRM)... -
How does FDI influence health outcomes in Africa?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mustapha Immurana --- , GhanaWhile most developing countries are devising strategies to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows, the effect of FDI on sustainable economic development remains debatable, with very little known on its health effects. Using data from 1980 to 2018 on... -
The Africa–China engagement: Contemporary developments and directions for future research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Ken Kamoche --- , UK Saileshsingh Gunessee --- , Nana K. Kufuor --- ,The Africa–China engagement continues to attract attention from scholars and the media, and is increasingly characterized by controversy and conjecture. This special issue sought to re-examine the engagement against this backdrop, to provide a forum where some important aspects of... -
The triple whorl for industrial parks entrepreneurial ecosystem development: Unleashing the integrated role on small ventures growth
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abdella Kosa Chebo --- Kotebe Metropolitan University, Ethiopia Tesfaye Hailu Gebrekidan --- Kotebe Metropolitan University, EthiopiaDeveloping countries need industrial parks (IPs) to modernize their industries and technologies as well as to enable the growth of ventures by combining the entrepreneurial elements in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Industrial parks will integrate domestic and foreign investment through public-private... -
Chinese foreign direct investment and business start-ups in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Philip Akrofi Atitianti --- Africa Research Centre, Xiamen, People’s Republic of China Samuel Kofi Asiamah --- University of Education, GhanaIn recent decades, Chinese FDI has become an integral investment source for African countries and has, therefore, engendered studies seeking to understand the determinants of these flows. In a quest to identify the factors that stimulate these flows, this paper... -
E-government’s role in enhancing foreign direct investment to sub-Saharan African countries: An application of system GMM
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Getahun Tolossa Adugna --- School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, University of Gondar, Ethiopia Wondemhunegn Ezezew Melesse --- School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, University of Gondar, Ethiopia Yinges Alemu Muche --- School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, University of Gondar, EthiopiaIn recent years, the provision of government services through electronic platforms has significantly increased due to the rapid development of digital technologies. The significant shift in digital governance is expected to have an effect on key macroeconomic variables through its...