Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), types of foreign direct investment (FDI) – greenfield investments (GFIs) and mergers and acquisitions (M&As) – and economic growth in 49 African countries between...

A changing global landscape calls on us to consider the management of organizations in a new manner, as the theme of the 2010 Eastern Academy of Management conference indicates. Uncertainty arising from the natural environment is a daunting challenge presented by this shifting landscape. This...

As U.S. corporations have sought remedies to the ills of the 1980s era of diversification through conglomeration, “restructuring” or “reengineering” has become a management buzzword. Equally significant has been the exponential growth of the extant literature on the subject. The...

What role did foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) play in South Africa's transition to democratic rule? At best, corporate codes of conduct, adopted by foreign MNCs as an alternative to sanctions, provided comfort for only a few South Africans, mostly company employees. Only disinvestment...