TY - JOUR
T1 - Institutional Factors Affecting Expansion within the East African Community
T2 - An Analysis of Managers’ Personal Stories
AU - Short, Jeremy C.
AU - McKenny, Aaron
AU - Namatovu, Rebecca
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This study investigates the roles of the regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional pillars as perceived obstacles and facilitators of internationalization within an integrated region. Integrated regions involve efforts to create institutional similarities among member nations and encourage intra-regional trade. These efforts make integrated regions a theoretically interesting and important context for analyzing managerial perceptions of the institutional environment. We content analyze essays and questionnaires from managers in the East African Community (EAC) to compare the three pillars. Our findings suggest that managers perceive the regulative pillar to be the greatest source of institutional obstacles to expansion within the EAC. Interestingly, the managers also perceive the regulative pillar to be the greatest source of institutional facilitators of expansion within the EAC.
AB - This study investigates the roles of the regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional pillars as perceived obstacles and facilitators of internationalization within an integrated region. Integrated regions involve efforts to create institutional similarities among member nations and encourage intra-regional trade. These efforts make integrated regions a theoretically interesting and important context for analyzing managerial perceptions of the institutional environment. We content analyze essays and questionnaires from managers in the East African Community (EAC) to compare the three pillars. Our findings suggest that managers perceive the regulative pillar to be the greatest source of institutional obstacles to expansion within the EAC. Interestingly, the managers also perceive the regulative pillar to be the greatest source of institutional facilitators of expansion within the EAC.
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U2 - 10.1080/23322373.2015.1109850
DO - 10.1080/23322373.2015.1109850
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
SP - 365
EP - 383
JO - Africa Journal of Management
JF - Africa Journal of Management
SN - 2332-2373
IS - 4
ER -