Integrated Organic Growth: The Cases of Cameroon and Mauritius

Jonker, Kobus; Robinson, Bryan W.

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“…This was attained at the diplomatic level, and engagement with the Cameroonian state (Geary & Nyiawung, 2021 ). Cameroon may be a particularly salient example to understanding the relationship between parent country diplomacy and its impact on overseas subsidiaries, given both the insights afforded by existing scholarship on that country (Jonker & Robinson, 2018 ), and its internal diversity; for example, tensions and disarticulations between the Anglophone and Francophone areas of the country may not only provide challenges, but also opportunities that foreign and domestic firms might exploit (cf. Ezemenaka & Ekumaoko, 2021 ).…”

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International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions

Kamoche

Wood

2023

J Int Bus Stud

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In response to Nachum et al.’s (J Int Bus Stud, 2023) call for further research in Africa by international business (IB) scholars, we argue that while IB scholars may have been slow to engage with Africa, the same cannot be said of related and IB-relevant business and management scholarship. There is already a substantial body of work on Africa in other domains of business and management scholarship – and relevant theorizing – that represents an important resource for IB scholarship. In contextualizing the ‘interesting’, we identify several contemporary theoretical strands that have so far characterized ‘Africa research’, interrogate ongoing challenges that mitigate these efforts, and suggest ways in which further research that speaks to theoretical, practical, and policy issues might inform IB researchers’ engagement with Africa. Specifically, we set out the broader scope of the African business/management debate that might inform IB research, re-examine African diversity through the prism of ‘theoretical tensions and puzzles’, and consider the role of emergent indigenous theorizing such as ubuntu and Africapitalism that make Africa both ‘interesting’ and worthy of IB inquiry.

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International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions

Kamoche

Wood

2023

J Int Bus Stud

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“…Social capital: An asset towards public resilience in the cooperative natural resource's organization of community-based tourism systems/structures and difficulties related with marketing and packaging. If TD effectively enters into Cameroon and in Africa, it will be a business of "selling dreams" Jonker and Robinson (2018). The challenged faced in most sub-Saharan nations are the need to donate the different roles of the private local and foreign TD decisions in Africa.…”

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Urban Decentralization and Quality of Life: Insights of Tourism Sector Stakeholders in Cameroon

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Öztüren

2022

Int. J. Res. Granthaalayah

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One of the main objectives of tourism development (TD) is to enhance the quality of life (QOL) of communities and stakeholders. The enhancement of tourism activities can progressively enhance the popular possibilities for community regeneration. Decentralization in the tourism sector will enhance the livelihood of residents and stakeholders. This study aimed at investigating how decentralization in the tourism sector can enhance and improve the life of tourism stakeholders and the local residents. This research is a qualitative research that involves the stakeholders from various public and private tourism sectors in both the English and French speaking regions in Cameroon (both control by a single government). In addition, in-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted with relevant key informants. The results indicate that tourism is still at its unawareness and infant stage. Vital outcomes suggest that, while respondents generally agreed that decentralization has many positive benefits on tourism stakeholders, such benefits are often concentrated at government level (centralized), or contained within privately owned businesses. The lack of decentralization sharing can be attributed to the low level of involvement of residents and stakeholders in the sector, unsuitable management practices that promote neither inclusiveness, nor the nomination of resident. The study recommends that policies and strategies that encourage urban development should be decentralized rather than centralized in the country, to ensure that the appropriate structures are put in place for the equitable distribution of the economic benefits to resident to enhance their quality of life. This paper is to demonstrate how well decentralization can enable and improve the life of tourism stakeholders.

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Integrated Organic Growth: The Cases of Cameroon and Mauritius

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International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions

International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions

Urban Decentralization and Quality of Life: Insights of Tourism Sector Stakeholders in Cameroon

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