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dc.contributor.author | Barnard, Helena![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Mamabolo, Mathukhwane Anastacia![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-12T09:36:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | We use institutional theory to understand how managers in different types of firms make sense of the dysfunction of institutionally weak environments. We interviewed ninety executives working in Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and found that religion was used as a normative institution when dealing with remediable institutional dysfunction, typically corruption, and as cultural-cognitive institution when dysfunction was perceived as non-remediable (associated with pervasive uncertainty) for those working for domestic firms and so-called nascent multinationals. No executives working for developed country (European) multinationals used religion as a system of meaning-making; executives of emerging market (South-African) multinationals used religion only normatively. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) | en_US |
dc.description.embargo | 2023-12-06 | |
dc.description.librarian | hj2022 | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://www.elsevier.com/locate/jwb | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Barnard, H. & Mamabolo, A. 2022, 'On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries', Journal of World Business, vol. 57, no. 1, art. 101262, pp. 1-17, doi : 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101262. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1090-9516 | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101262 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/86103 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of World Business. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of World Business, vol. 57, no. 1, art. 101262, pp. 1-17, 2022, doi : 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101262. | en_US |
dc.subject | Religion | en_US |
dc.subject | Normative institutions | en_US |
dc.subject | Cultural-cognitive institutions | en_US |
dc.subject | Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | International business | en_US |
dc.title | On religion as an institution in international business : executives’ lived experience in four African countries | en_US |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_US |