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Title: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: AFRICAN BUSINESS RESPONSE.
Authors: Esho, Ebes1, Verhoef, Grietjie2
Source: Journal of Global Business & Technology. Fall2023, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p14-30. 17p.
Subjects: Industry 4.0, Digital technology, International business enterprises, Market sentiment, Industrial revolution
Geographic Terms: Africa
Abstract: An impressive economic growth between 2000 and 2015 and increased business activities in Africa attracted global investors and research attention. Multinational companies, a product of industrial revolutions, are emerging from several African countries. However, just as African multinationals are emerging, a fourth industrial revolution (4IR) seems to be evolving, despite ongoing debates about the exact revolutionary nature of new digital technologies. Similar to previous industrial revolutions, Africa seems to be trailing the world in this new era of digitalization. This conceptual paper presents a discursive analysis of how African businesses, wishing to internationalize, and home-grown African Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), should respond to 4IR and its related technologies. Some of the inherent opportunities and emerging challenges for African business presented by the 4IR era and its associated technologies are presented. The article begins by clarifying the concept of 4IR and its misconception with industry 4.0 and similar terms. The paper then proceeds to a discussion of the summary characteristics of industrial revolutions, its relationships with the emergence of MNEs, and how theories of international businesses have generally evolved with different industrial revolutions. The authors conclude with a research agenda for African businesses and MNEs in an age of fast paced digitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: An impressive economic growth between 2000 and 2015 and increased business activities in Africa attracted global investors and research attention. Multinational companies, a product of industrial revolutions, are emerging from several African countries. However, just as African multinationals are emerging, a fourth industrial revolution (4IR) seems to be evolving, despite ongoing debates about the exact revolutionary nature of new digital technologies. Similar to previous industrial revolutions, Africa seems to be trailing the world in this new era of digitalization. This conceptual paper presents a discursive analysis of how African businesses, wishing to internationalize, and home-grown African Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), should respond to 4IR and its related technologies. Some of the inherent opportunities and emerging challenges for African business presented by the 4IR era and its associated technologies are presented. The article begins by clarifying the concept of 4IR and its misconception with industry 4.0 and similar terms. The paper then proceeds to a discussion of the summary characteristics of industrial revolutions, its relationships with the emergence of MNEs, and how theories of international businesses have generally evolved with different industrial revolutions. The authors conclude with a research agenda for African businesses and MNEs in an age of fast paced digitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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