1st Edition
Emerging Market Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa A Legitimacy Perspective
Introduction
1. The legitimacy of MNEs as a problem, a solution, and a challenge
Krzysztof Obłój
2. Gaining ground: Chinese Firms’ Quest for Legitimacy in Africa
Dominik Kopiński
3. Legitimacy in the Global South: Brazil’s Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pedro Trus Mendes, Aleksandra Wąsowska
4. History matters: Legitimisation strategies of Indian Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Małgorzata Kuczara, Mukesh Shankar Bharti
5. Legitimising strategies of infant multinationals: Polish firms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dominik Kopiński, Krzysztof Obłój, Aleksandra Wąsowska
Concluding remarks
Biography
Aleksandra Wąsowska is Professor of International Management at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, where she heads the Department of Strategy and Leadership. Her research interests include strategies of emerging market MNEs and psychological determinants of entrepreneurship (including international entrepreneurship). She was a visiting academic at the University of Oxford, conducting the project “The Communist Legacy and International Business”. She has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles published in Business History, Management International Review, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Baltic Journal of Management, European Journal of International Management, and Journal of East European Management Studies, as well as book chapters edited by Routledge, Palgrave, and Emerald. She is a member of EIBA.
