Trade and investment: Trends and prospects

Chaturvedi, Sachin; Mohanty, Saroj Kumar

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“…In just a few decades, the Indian economy has emerged as a major business partner of Africa, replacing the USA, the UK and France (Brautigam, 2010; Chaturvedi and Mohanty, 2007). Africa has abundant investment opportunities in the field of agriculture, banking, telecommunications, infrastructure, retail and natural resources (Chironga et al , 2011).…”

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Achieving organizational effectiveness of MNCs through People: evidence from India and Mozambique

Jha

Pereira

Misra³

2022

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide human resource (HR) practitioners of multinational companies aspiring to invest in these two countries with guidelines for attaining organizational effectiveness through people. Design/methodology/approach This study develops and tests a multiple criteria decision-making model with data collected in the banking sectors of India and Mozambique. It compares the job engagement, team building and innovation strategy preferences of Indian personnel with those of Mozambican employees. Findings The findings of the study reveal the differences in the perceptions of the respondents of both countries regarding the importance of the strategies for organizational effectiveness. Research limitations/implications Despite several contributions, the study has certain limitations too. Although utmost care was taken to avoid the issue of common method variance, the cross-sectional self-reported design of the study might be adversely affected by common method bias (MacKenzie and Podsakoff, 2012). Hence, future research might be conducted using different designs, such as diary studies or longitudinal studies. Future research might also be conducted making use of organizational productivity case studies to demonstrate the practicability of customizing the HR strategies using the multi-attribute decision-making approach. Practical implications This body of work is an addition to the existing literature on cross-national studies in the field of HR management (HRM) and adds to the limited literature on HRM in the least developed countries. The study is designed to provide guidelines for the HR practitioners of multi-national companies in these two countries to help them achieve enhanced organizational effectiveness. This should be of particular interest to the HR managers of the Indian companies aspiring to invest in Mozambique. Originality/value Research in the area of HRM is mainly limited to the developed and developing nations, with very few studies centering on emerging economies. While most cross-national studies on organizational effectiveness are also largely focused on developed and developing nations, this study is unusual, in that its focus is on a fast-developing nation (India) and an emerging economy (Mozambique).

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Achieving organizational effectiveness of MNCs through People: evidence from India and Mozambique

Jha

Pereira

Misra³

2022

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“…59 According to one analysis, such processes may reflect a wider movement whereby the engagement of emerging economies such as India may allow African economies to bypass the conditionalities imposed upon the continent by the western-led international financial institutions. 60 Accordingly, such activity may also signify the nascent formalization of the global South's growing resistance to the North's agenda-setting. 61 India's penchant for multilateral trade agreements may also serve to profit some African economies by precluding economically predatory-if not destructive-behaviour arguably intrinsic to the WTO's unified methodology.…”

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India's rise in Africa

Taylor

2012

International Affairs

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India's rise in Africa has been largely overlooked, despite the important implications of the growing presence of Indian corporations and a rise in New Delhi's political ties with the continent. Not only are Indian actors providing much‐needed investment and capital, but Indo‐African connections represent a further important diversification of Africa's international relations, something which reflects a major development for the continent. Indian activity in Africa may be said to constitute a middle ground between China's profit‐maximizing and largely statist approach and the much‐resented intrusive conditionalities associated with western policies. It is evident that India's growing activity in Africa has the potential to help African companies become more efficient by exposing them to competition, new advances in technology and modern labour skills. African governments could potentially use the opportunity of an increased Indian corporate presence in Africa as sources of appropriate technology, skills and advice for economic development. However, if not handled correctly, any goodwill that India possesses in Africa will quickly be squandered and/or India will become just another actor in Africa. It is up to Africans to negotiate with Indian actors to ensure that the benefits accrued from Indo‐African ties are evenly shared and that Indian interest in the continent, alongside that of others, may help to serve as a catalyst for economic revitalization. The key issue is how African leaders can seek to leverage newfound Indian investment and interest in Africa so that Africa's place in global trade networks becomes more proactive and beneficial to the continent's citizens.

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“…This was illustrated at the 2008 India-Africa Summit where India's development-centric approach won praise from the African participants, with African delegates emphasizing that India should be a stakeholder and not a shareholder in the continent's development. At the same time India's business linkages are aimed more at horizontal trajectories with regional trade blocs like COMESA, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and ECOWAS (Chaturyedi and Mohanty 2007). This reflects more alignment with continental regional trade processes as opposed to China's bilateral trade focus.…”

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The rise of China and India in Africa

2010

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This PDF is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence. Further details regarding permitted usage can be found at http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Print and ebook editions of this work are available to purchase from Zed Books (www.zedbooks.co.uk). A frica NowAfrica Now is an exciting new series, published by Zed Books in association with the internationally respected Nordic Africa Institute. Featuring high-quality, cutting-edge research from leading academics, the series addresses the big issues confronting Africa today. Accessible but in-depth, and wide-ranging in its scope, Africa Now engages with the critical political, economic, socio logical and development debates affecting the continent, shedding new light on pressing concerns.

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Trade and investment: Trends and prospects

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Achieving organizational effectiveness of MNCs through People: evidence from India and Mozambique

Achieving organizational effectiveness of MNCs through People: evidence from India and Mozambique

India's rise in Africa

The rise of China and India in Africa

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