Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 14 Issue 2/3

Guest editorial

Richard Nyuur, Roseline Wanjiru, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Simeon Ifere

Disruptive innovation at the base-of-the-pyramid: Opportunities, and challenges for multinationals in African emerging markets

Abiodun Adegbile, David Sarpong

The authors aim to examine the potential opportunities and challenges multinationals operating in Africa are likely to encounter when they seek to pioneer disruptive innovations…

Attracting Chinese FDI in Africa: The role of natural resources, market size and institutional quality

Shan Shan, Zhibin Lin, Yulei Li, Yan Zeng

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of natural resources, market size and five major institutional factors (voice and accountability; political stability and…

Newly independent nations and large engineering projects: the case of the Volta River Project

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Ellis L.C. Osabutey

The purpose of this paper is to explicate how newly independent nations combined local and international resources to plan and build large engineering projects aimed at enhancing…

Cross-cultural communication imperatives: Critical lessons for Western expatriates in multinational companies (MNCs) in sub-Saharan Africa

James Baba Abugre

Given the rising expansion of Western multinational companies (MNCs) to the African contexts, the development of expatriates and local employees has become increasingly important…

International business research challenges in Africa: Knowledge creation and institutional perspectives

Abdoulkadre Ado, Roseline Wanjiru

This paper aims to explore the challenges researchers in/on Africa face when conducting research on the continent. It examines the reasons behind Africans’ relatively limited…

Critical perspectives on “manufactured” risks arising from Eurocentric business practices in Africa

Kweku Adams, Bhabani Shankar Nayak, Serge Koukpaki

This paper considers the Eurocentric conceptualisation of risk, which reinforces language, culture and business practices that are in conflict with Africa’s own traditional…

Competitive or cooperative relationships in clusters: A comparative study of two internationalising agro-processing clusters in Ghana

Anthony Ayakwah, Leandro Sepulveda, Fergus Lyon

An efficient policy supporting clustered business operations necessitates an appreciation of the dynamics of rivalry and collaborations among businesses. This paper postulates…

Integration of African firms into global value chains: A comparison of Finnish and Chinese firms’ sourcing from Africa

Weimu You, Asta Salmi, Katri Kauppi

This paper aims to analyze the roles that African suppliers play in global value chains and the strategies that foreign firms adopt to integrate African firms into their supply…

Investigating the moderating role of Export Promotion Programmes using evidence from North-Africa

Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Adah-Kole Onjewu, Paul Jones, Robert Newbery

Based on an institutional approach to explaining firms’ internationalisation, this paper aims to empirically investigate the role of Export Promotion Programmes (EPPs) in…

A critical incident analysis of the export behaviour of SMEs: evidence from an emerging market

Obi Berko Obeng Damoah

In line with the slogan “Africa rising”, the paper responds to the calls to shed light on the management knowledge of Africa, especially on the internationalisation of process of…