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The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26288 The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa Wocke, Albert ichelp@gibs.co.za Kriel, Lourandi UCTD Financial performance Political risk Emerging market Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Africa as an emerging market offers firms from Multinational Corporations (MNCs) significant opportunities to expand and capitalise on the continents economic growth and combined consumer spending. Africa has significantly higher levels of state fragility and political risk in comparison to the rest of the World. Managers of firms looking to enter the African market need to analyse political risk in Africa when the firm risk taking and financial return relationship is considered. The objective of this research study was to establish if there is a relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa. This study used various financial performance ratios of 406 firms operating in five African countries and numerous country political risk variables to investigate if such a relationship exist over an eight year period. The findings indicate that there is a positive political risk financial return relationship for firms operating in Africa. Firms seem to achieve higher financial performance results in countries with higher overall political risk. This study suggest that African countries need to be analysed on an individual basis when considering political risk and published political risk data should not be used for decision making without deeper understanding and analyses of the country. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T04:21:58Z 2012-09-21 2013-09-07T04:21:58Z 2012-03-08 2012-09-21 2012-07-14 Dissertation Kriel, L 2011, The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26288 > F12/4/677/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26288 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07142012-192608/ © 2011, 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 Financial performance Political risk Emerging market The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa |
| title | The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa |
| title_full | The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa |
| title_short | The relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in Africa |
| title_sort | relationship between political risk and financial performance of firms in africa |
| topic | UCTD Financial performance Political risk Emerging market |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26288 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07142012-192608/ |