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Strategic African alliances: success drivers in platform economies
Mini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/85436 Strategic African alliances: success drivers in platform economies Myres, Hugh Tererai, Sandra UCTD Mini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2021. High expectations exist for Africa’s ability to harness the digital wave, while simultaneously making vast developmental strides forward as a result. This qualitative study establishes the key drivers of success in understudied African platform economies and ascertains the developmental contribution of these platform economies to the continent. Findings from engaging twelve established and emerging African platforms with a total operational coverage in twenty African countries reveal the following: African platform definition of success is shifting gradually towards a shared prosperity model. The underlying African business environment in which platforms exist is largely inhibitive due to infrastructural and regulatory inadequacies, hence the key success drivers for platforms lie in the contextual capabilities of the platform. African platforms are internally motivated to contribute to continental development, typically as a business imperative, and are not uninfluenced by external developmental agendas such as the UN SDGs. African platform contribution to sustainable development is limited, by topic and by continental impact, and will meet high developmental expectations in the current inhibitive business environment. While a few platforms are strategically committed to developmental outcomes, the developmental impact of African platforms is, overall, inadequately monitored zl22 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2022-05-17T11:21:15Z 2022-05-17T11:21:15Z 2022/04/07 2021 Mini Dissertation * https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85436 en © 2020 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 |
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| title | Strategic African alliances: success drivers in platform economies |
| title_full | Strategic African alliances: success drivers in platform economies |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Strategic African alliances: success drivers in platform economies |
| title_short | Strategic African alliances: success drivers in platform economies |
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| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85436 |