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Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context
Mini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80510 Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context van Eck, Danéel ichelp@gibs.co.za Sangcozi, Lwando Luvuyo UCTD Mini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2020. This research sought to answer the question of whether South African EMNEs internationalising into developed markets, can successfully transfer the knowledge of their subsidiaries back home to improve their innovation performance. Gaining access to these strategic assets is, according to springboard theorists, the primary motives for EMNEs internationalising into developed markets. However, the evidence from this research does not support this postulation. This conclusion was arrived at after following the organisational institutionalism tradition, disaggregating the construct of institutions into the regulatory, normative, and cognitive pillars. This allowed for the hypotheses to be built on all three of these equally important aspects of institutions. Data was collected on cross border acquisitions by South African EMNEs between 2005 and 2015, and the resultant innovation activities analysed using a longitudinal strategy. After employing the Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling to test the hypotheses, it was concluded that regulatory, normative, and cognitive distance do not result in an improvement in the innovation performance of the parent, even though this has been proven by another study in a Chinese context. This research outcome uncovered contextual peculiarities in the South African environment that have an impact on the institutional theory discipline at large. Firstly, the conceptualisation of institutions needs to be granulated to focus on the aspects that relate to organisational outcomes. Secondly, the asset-seeking motive of the EMNE is a mediator between institutional distance and innovation performance. Thirdly, by disaggregating the normative distance from the other pillars, this research has reinforced a widely held view in literature, that normative distance negatively influences organisational performance. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MPhil Unrestricted 2021-06-22T12:29:22Z 2021-06-22T12:29:22Z 2021/04/14 2020 Mini Dissertation Sangcozi, LL 2020, Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context, MPhil Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80510> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80510 en © 2021 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 distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context |
| title | Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context |
| title_full | Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context |
| title_fullStr | Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context |
| title_short | Institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer : the South African context |
| title_sort | institutional distance and innovation knowledge transfer the south african context |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80510 |