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Tata in Africa : where to next?
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29495 Tata in Africa : where to next? White, Lyal ichelp@gibs.co.za Cooper, David John Stuart UCTD Institutional voids Strategy Tata Africa Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Tata has been successfully trading in Africa for over 35 years in diverse industries and countries. This case study focuses specifically on Tata Africa’s strategies and operational innovations.In African countries, institutional voids exist — the absence of conventional mechanisms that make business work — which present a significant challenge for businesses operating on the continent. The objective of this case study is to understand how Tata has had to adapt its strategies in Africa to overcome these institutional voids in a way that has allowed it to operate successfully in multiple countries and industries.The case study format has been used because it enables a deep analysis of the strategies adopted by Tata. It also provides a means for classroom teaching methods that will enable students to better understand the challenges of doing business in Africa and how to overcome them.Two central questions posed to students of Africa are: 1.) Why has Tata developed activities that are so different from its core businesses? 2.) Instead of allowing the challenges it found to prevent Tata from trading in Africa, the company has devised strategies to ensure long-term success. What are they?Based on the findings, the answers to these questions lie firstly in the “five context framework” proposed by Khanna, Palepu and Sinha (2005) to identify the existence of institutional voids, and secondly in a model derived from the research into the strategy of Tata in Africa that offers solutions to overcome the institutional voids.Other issues for class debate and discussion are also offered. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T15:45:52Z 2013-04-25 2013-09-07T15:45:52Z 2013-04-25 2012 2013-02-16 Dissertation Cooper, DJS 2012, Tata in Africa : where to next?, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29495 > F13/4/142/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29495 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02162013-135231/ © 2012 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 Institutional voids Strategy Tata Africa Tata in Africa : where to next? |
| title | Tata in Africa : where to next? |
| title_full | Tata in Africa : where to next? |
| title_fullStr | Tata in Africa : where to next? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tata in Africa : where to next? |
| title_short | Tata in Africa : where to next? |
| title_sort | tata in africa where to next |
| topic | UCTD Institutional voids Strategy Tata Africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29495 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02162013-135231/ |