Research Articles (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS))http://hdl.handle.net/2263/512792024-03-28T11:36:28Z2024-03-28T11:36:28ZExamining underexplored aspects of female entrepreneurship in the African contextChrysostome, Elie VirgileBarnard, HelenaIka, Lavagnonhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/953392024-03-25T22:47:16Z2024-01-01T00:00:00ZExamining underexplored aspects of female entrepreneurship in the African context
Chrysostome, Elie Virgile; Barnard, Helena; Ika, Lavagnon
Female entrepreneurship has become a phenomenon of an increasing interest for the last few decades and as such has captured the attention of many scholars, governments, international institutions for development, women’s associations, and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs). For instance, Ojong et al. suggest that 88.4% of papers focusing on female entrepreneurship in the current literature were published between 2007 and 2019 and that 50.3% of them were published in 2015. Also, significant amounts of money have been invested in the promotion and the development of female entrepreneurship in Africa by governments and international development agencies.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZStepping stones across a fast-flowing river : supporting emerging scholars from emerging marketsBarnard, Helenahttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/952682024-03-19T22:45:54Z2024-02-01T00:00:00ZStepping stones across a fast-flowing river : supporting emerging scholars from emerging markets
Barnard, Helena
PURPOSE : International business as a field values perspectives from various contexts, but scholars from emerging markets face a number of often-unseen challenges preventing them from fully contributing to the field. This study aims to explain those challenges and what the author has done to manage them.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : This is a Reflexive piece in which the author makes sense of her own experience as a scholar not only of but also in an emerging market, as well as the experiences at her school in seeking to develop a high-quality doctoral program.
FINDINGS : When leading scholars interact, whether in writing or in person, they tend to be in academically and otherwise well-resourced locations. This is true even for the leading international business scholars of emerging markets, and it imposes time and financial costs on scholars located in emerging markets wanting to participate in such conversations. Having experienced such challenges, the author worked with colleagues to design a doctoral program that could nurture rich scholarly conversations at the school. However, there remains a clear and pervasive tension between the inclusive aspirations of the field and the tendency for cutting-edge academic conversations to be concentrated in the developed world.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE : The experiences of emerging market scholars remain underrepresented in the field. By drawing on her own experience, both as a scholar and the head of the doctoral program at her school, the author provides suggestions for how to think about and develop a more inclusive scholarly conversation.
2024-02-01T00:00:00ZCo-creating value in entrepreneurship : an exploratory study of Lebanese womenFarquhar, Jillian DawesLichy, JessicaAlthalathini, DoaaKachour, MaherMichels, Nicolettehttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/951982024-03-14T22:47:55Z2024-01-01T00:00:00ZCo-creating value in entrepreneurship : an exploratory study of Lebanese women
Farquhar, Jillian Dawes; Lichy, Jessica; Althalathini, Doaa; Kachour, Maher; Michels, Nicolette
This study aims to amplify theory and practice at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface (MEI) by proposing a revision to the key concept of value creation. Advances in marketing research suggest that value is co-created by means of multiple actors, who integrate their resources within ecosystems. This study, therefore, investigates value co-creation from a MEI perspective. The study is based in Lebanon, a country encountering turbulence and disruption, providing a MENA context. In recognition of local conditions, the methodology is contextually congruent, using socially mediated interviews and panel discussions. Analysis of these data uncovers emergent practices of VCC that are captured in two dimensions of adaptive marketing and online interactions that take place within a digitally enabled but imbalanced entrepreneurial ecosystem. The study offers a revision to theory at the MEI by extending value creation to value co-creation and by showing how value co-creation may be adapted and reconfigured according to local circumstances.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZReadmission and inhospital death 1 year after COVID-19 hospitalization in South AfricaRodseth, ReitzeMaslo, CarolineLaubscher, AnchenFriedland, Richardhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/950432024-03-04T22:50:15Z2023-09-01T00:00:00ZReadmission and inhospital death 1 year after COVID-19 hospitalization in South Africa
Rodseth, Reitze; Maslo, Caroline; Laubscher, Anchen; Friedland, Richard
BACKGROUND : Acute SARS-COVID-19 infection may increase readmission risk compared to other respiratory infections. We assessed the 1-year readmission and inhospital death rates of hospitalized SARS-COVID-19 patients compared to patients hospitalized with other types of pneumonia.
METHODS : We determined the 1-year readmission and inhospital death rate of adult patients initially hospitalized with a positive SARS-COVID-19 result, and subsequently discharged, between March 2020 and August 2021, at a Netcare private hospital in South Africa, and compared this to all hospitalized adult pneumonia patients in the 3 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (2017–2019).
RESULTS : The 1-year readmission rate in COVID-19 patients was 6.6% (328/50,067) versus 8.5% in pneumonia patients (4699/55,439; p < 0.001), with an inhospital mortality rate of 7.7% (n = 251) and 9.7% (n = 454; p = 0.002) for COVID-19 and pneumonia patients, respectively.
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