TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa
T2 - Evidence from Ghanaian Firms
AU - Osabutey, Ellis L.C.
AU - Papanastassiou, Marina
AU - Jin, Zhongqi
AU - Navare, Jyoti
AU - Agyapong, Ahmed
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is widely perceived as a region of countries with low technological capabilities, weak complementary assets competing on basic country specific advantages (CSAs) and relying on transferred technology. In this paper we argue against this perception. Integrating the extended concepts of Location Bound (LB) and Non-Location Bound (NLB) Firm Specific Advantages (FSAs) within a “revisited” CSAs/FSAs matrix, we provide evidence that home-market grown LB-FSAs and their transformation to NLB-FSAs are induced by domestic Ghanaian firms’ strategic and export orientation.
AB - Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is widely perceived as a region of countries with low technological capabilities, weak complementary assets competing on basic country specific advantages (CSAs) and relying on transferred technology. In this paper we argue against this perception. Integrating the extended concepts of Location Bound (LB) and Non-Location Bound (NLB) Firm Specific Advantages (FSAs) within a “revisited” CSAs/FSAs matrix, we provide evidence that home-market grown LB-FSAs and their transformation to NLB-FSAs are induced by domestic Ghanaian firms’ strategic and export orientation.
KW - Technology sources
KW - Firm-specific advantages (FSAs)
KW - Country-specific advantages (CSAs)
KW - Complementary assets
KW - Africa
KW - Ghana
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102106
DO - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102106
M3 - Article
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - International Business Review
JF - International Business Review
SN - 0969-5931
M1 - 102106
ER -