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Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24395 Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa Davies, Martyn upetd@up.ac.za Mkhize, Zakhele UCTD Emerging markets Mutinational enterprises Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The global strategies of the three South African retail giants are examined with a view to understand what factors motivate South African multinational enterprises to move into Africa, as well as what motivates their particular choice of countries, and how the capabilities and resources are deployed and managed in their foreign operations, so as to remain competitive in both local and foreign markets. The South African retail giant geographic expansion is a way to penetrate new markets, explore new opportunities and deliver the growth they seek on the journey to high performance. Their choice of countries is determined by various factors that contribute to the competitive nature of a country, namely: national values and cultures; macro and micro economic environment; political stability; institutions, and history. As these emerging market multinational enterprises cannot depend on countryspecific advantages, the contenders accelerate their development of firm-specific advantages at a rapid rate. South African companies have developed expertise for trading in Africa as they are more familiar with the physical, regulatory and social terrain than businesses from other parts of the world. The market, the culture and realities of infrastructure, poverty, lack of skills, as well as the technology in their non-South African operations are not a shock to the South African companies. The business strategies will, therefore, not entirely be the same as those of the multinationals from the developed world. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T17:25:52Z 2010-07-07 2013-09-06T17:25:52Z 2010-04-11 2010-07-07 2010-05-06 Dissertation Mkhize, Z 2009, Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24395 > G10/341/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24395 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05062010-135856/ © 2009 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Emerging markets Mutinational enterprises Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa |
| title | Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa |
| title_full | Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa |
| title_fullStr | Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa |
| title_short | Emerging markets multinational enterprises : South African retail giants moving into Africa |
| title_sort | emerging markets multinational enterprises south african retail giants moving into africa |
| topic | UCTD Emerging markets Mutinational enterprises |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24395 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05062010-135856/ |