Institutional Factors Affecting Expansion Within The East African Community: An Analysis Of Managers’ Personal Stories

Keywords

content analysis; institutional distance; institutional pillars; regional integration

Abstract

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.

Publication Date

10-2-2015

Publication Title

Africa Journal of Management

Volume

1

Issue

4

Number of Pages

365-383

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2015.1109850

Socpus ID

85050726531 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85050726531

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