Engaging Stakeholders Through Corporate Political Activity: Insights From MNE Nonmarket Strategy in an Emerging African Market

Mbalyohere, Charles; Lawton, Thomas C.

doi:10.1016/j.intman.2018.04.006

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“…CPA draws from the tradition that firm performance is a function of its institutional contexts, which are informed and shaped by influential politicians, politics, and policies (Mbalyohere and Lawton, 2018). As such, CPA involves a set of strategies through which the firm aligns with its business environment and or institutional context to enhance its performance.…”

Section: Beyond Csr: Taking Corporate Political Responsibility Seriouslymentioning

confidence: 99%

Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges

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Business ethics in Africa, as a field of research, practice, and teaching, has grown rapidly over the last two decades or so, covering a wide variety of topical issues, including corporate social responsibility, governance, and social entrepreneurship. Building on this progress, and to further advance the field, this special issue addresses four broad areas that cover important, under-researched or newly emerging phenomena in Africa: culture, ethics and leadership; business, society and institutions; corruption, anticorruption and governance; and philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and impact investing. In addition to advancing research by addressing some of the imbalances and gaps in the extant literature, this special issue draws attention to indigenous African theories, models and firms. Some challenges facing business ethics, as a field of practice and teaching in Africa, are also highlighted. The paper concludes with a summary of the eight articles in this special issue.

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Section: Beyond Csr: Taking Corporate Political Responsibility Seriouslymentioning

confidence: 99%

Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges

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“…There are costs to these, since they are unlikely to be as efficient as an unfettered market operating in a perfectly defined environment, but they may offer a second-best solution (Rothaermel, 2001). Moreover, IVs can also trigger strategic responses, such as developing and strengthening business group affiliates (Manikandan and Ramachandran, 2015), and foster international learning efforts in emerging economies (Adomako et al, 2019), as well as nonmarket strategies (Cantwell, Dunning and Lundan, 2010;Mbalyohere and Lawton, 2018;Rao-Nicholson et al, 2019). In addition, the prevalence of IVs can force a firm to construct substitutes to compensate for the challenges in the business environment (Boddewyn and Doh, 2011;Peng et al, 2009).…”

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Institutional Voids, Economic Adversity and Inter‐firm Cooperation in an Emerging Market: The Mediating Role of Government R&D Support

Adomako

Amankwah‐Amoah

Debrah

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British J of Management

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This paper examines the mediating mechanism of the relationship between institutional voids (IVs) and inter-firm cooperation and the moderating role of economic adversity in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in emerging markets. The hypotheses are tested using time-lagged survey data from 214 SMEs in Ghana. The findings provide support for the hypotheses by showing that: (1) IVs positively influence the use of government research and development (R&D) support; (2) the use of government R&D support mediates the relationship between IVs and inter-firm cooperation; and (3) economic adversity positively moderates the relationship between IVs and the use of government R&D support. The findings contribute to understanding the role of IVs in inter-firm cooperation. The wider implications for theory and practice are examined.

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“…Accordingly, previous studies have already shown that the effectiveness of MNEs in compensating the inability of host country institutions to provide electricity is strongly influenced by the proximity between the formal institutional context of the country of origin of the MNE and the formal institutional environment of the host country (D'Amelio et al, 2016). When formal institutions of the host and the home country presents some similarities, MNE managers are likely to have already developed at home the capability to deal with weak formal institutions, the resilience against and the adaptability to the political turbulences and uncertainties in the region (Mbalyohere and Lawton, 2018), and are more effective in identifying key actors to form winning coalitions in the host country (Cuervo-Cazurra and Genc, 2008;Holburn and Zelner, 2010;De Beule et al, 2014).…”

Section: H1 the Presence Of Fdi And Mnes Is More Likely To Positively Impact The Access To Electricity Of The Local Population When Both mentioning

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Multinational Enterprises and the Provision of Collective Goods in Developing Countries under Formal and Informal Institutional Voids. The Case of Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Garrone

Piscitello

D'Amelio

2019

Journal of International Management

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Despite their unprecedented growth, developing countries still face severe problems in the provision of collective goods. Electricity, whose provision is scarce or unreliable in most developing regions, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, is an emblematic case. The reason for this shortage is not only imputable to the lack of effective formal institutions, but also to the inefficacy of informal institutions in enabling alternative solutions for the production, transmission and distribution of electricity. We claim that in this context of "double institutional void", Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises (MNEs) can play a decisive role. However, their effectiveness depends on both the formal and informal institutional proximity between the home and the host countries. Our empirical analysis relies on panel data models run on a sample of pairs of home-host countries, the latter of which are all from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), observed from 2005 to 2011.

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Engaging Stakeholders Through Corporate Political Activity: Insights From MNE Nonmarket Strategy in an Emerging African Market

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Cited by 49 publications

References 119 publications

Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges

Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges

Institutional Voids, Economic Adversity and Inter‐firm Cooperation in an Emerging Market: The Mediating Role of Government R&D Support

Multinational Enterprises and the Provision of Collective Goods in Developing Countries under Formal and Informal Institutional Voids. The Case of Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa

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