Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry

We study the evolution of the African mobile telecommunications industry from its effective beginning and explore the sources of ownership advantages among indigenous firms, by assembling historica...

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Organization Science

• Publication date

  2021-05-14

• Fields of study

  Business, History

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  DOI 10.1287/ORSC.2021.1470
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