Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects

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dc.contributor.advisorKabinga, Mundia
dc.contributor.advisorZoogah, Baniyelme D
dc.contributor.authorMatenge, Tendy Moffat
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-28T09:28:55Z
dc.date.available2022-02-28T09:28:55Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-02-28T09:28:38Z
dc.description.abstractForeign market knowledge has been at the epicentre of international business research for decades and differences in institutional practices across countries have been found to influence performance of internationalised firms. Dominant scholarship in this area has been significantly influenced by insights and experiences from developed countries, usually to the detriment of understanding the influence of foreign institutional knowledge acquisition at both the firm and country levels in developing economies. Using a developing country lens, the objective of this study is to determine if foreign institutional practices acquired by SSA firms has a significant effect on their home country's industrial development. The study employs a quantitative cross-sectional survey research approach and collects data from 874 formally registered manufacturing firms in 28 SSA countries. The countries are stratified along two dimensions, noticeable and unnoticeable levels of industrial development. This allowed for cross-country comparison across the industrial development spectrum. The data collected was subsequently analysed in MLWin 3.02 for multilevel and involved a two-tier regression analysis to examine the relative importance of foreign institutional practice adoption as a source of variation in the home country's industrial development. The study finds statistically significant influences with respect to foreign practice adoption. This implies that adoption of foreign institutional practices by an internationalised firm from a foreign country benefits the home country. This study further opens new discussions about firm internationalisation and home country industrial development by demonstrating the significant influence of interaction effects between adoption of foreign institutional practices by an internationalised firm and four firm level variables and one country level variable on home country's industrial development.
dc.identifier.apacitationMatenge, T. M. (2021). <i>Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects</i>. (). ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35860en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMatenge, Tendy Moffat. <i>"Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects."</i> ., ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35860en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMatenge, T.M. 2021. Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects. . ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB). http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35860en_ZA
dc.identifier.risTY - Doctoral Thesis AU - Matenge, Tendy Moffat AB - Foreign market knowledge has been at the epicentre of international business research for decades and differences in institutional practices across countries have been found to influence performance of internationalised firms. Dominant scholarship in this area has been significantly influenced by insights and experiences from developed countries, usually to the detriment of understanding the influence of foreign institutional knowledge acquisition at both the firm and country levels in developing economies. Using a developing country lens, the objective of this study is to determine if foreign institutional practices acquired by SSA firms has a significant effect on their home country's industrial development. The study employs a quantitative cross-sectional survey research approach and collects data from 874 formally registered manufacturing firms in 28 SSA countries. The countries are stratified along two dimensions, noticeable and unnoticeable levels of industrial development. This allowed for cross-country comparison across the industrial development spectrum. The data collected was subsequently analysed in MLWin 3.02 for multilevel and involved a two-tier regression analysis to examine the relative importance of foreign institutional practice adoption as a source of variation in the home country's industrial development. The study finds statistically significant influences with respect to foreign practice adoption. This implies that adoption of foreign institutional practices by an internationalised firm from a foreign country benefits the home country. This study further opens new discussions about firm internationalisation and home country industrial development by demonstrating the significant influence of interaction effects between adoption of foreign institutional practices by an internationalised firm and four firm level variables and one country level variable on home country's industrial development. DA - 2021_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - business KW - industrial development KW - MLWin 3.02 LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2021 T1 - ETD: Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects TI - ETD: Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35860 ER -en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/35860
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMatenge TM. Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects. []. ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB), 2021 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35860en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentGraduate School of Business (GSB)
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerce
dc.subjectbusiness
dc.subjectindustrial development
dc.subjectMLWin 3.02
dc.titleAdoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationlevelPhD
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