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Internal capabilities, national governance and performance in African firms

Tunyi Tunyi Abongeh Orcid Logo, Henry Agyei-Boapeah, Geofry Areneke, Jacob Agyemang

Research in International Business and Finance, Volume: 50, Pages: 18 - 37

Swansea University Author: Tunyi Tunyi Abongeh Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.ribaf.2019.04.009

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We explore the relations between firms’ internal capabilities, national governance quality (NGQ) and performance in the African context using a dataset comprised of 11,183 firm-year observations (1490 unique firms from 15 African countries over a 17-year period). Our study offers new insights into h...

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Published in: Research in International Business and Finance
ISSN: 0275-5319 1878-3384
Published: Elsevier BV 2019
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description We explore the relations between firms’ internal capabilities, national governance quality (NGQ) and performance in the African context using a dataset comprised of 11,183 firm-year observations (1490 unique firms from 15 African countries over a 17-year period). Our study offers new insights into how interlinkages between firms’ internal and external environment, shape corporate success. Specifically, we find that (1) firms’ internal capabilities (captured by financial resource-availability and growth prospects) are critical enablers of performance in both weak and strong institutional environments, (2) individual firms perform well in environments where their peers performs well, (3) NGQ directly enhances aggregate firm performance, and in tandem, the performance of individual firms, and (4) NGQ moderates the capability-performance nexus, by enhancing the translation of growth opportunities into profitability. The results highlight the critical role of firm-level financial resource availability and growth prospects in shaping corporate success in this challenging institutional environment.
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