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Ikenna Uzuegbunam
Howard U., United States
Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi
U. of Victoria, Canada
Charles Stevens
Rutgers U., United States
Brett Gilbert
American U., United States
Andrea Hodge
Florida State U., United States
Mzamo Mangaliso
U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States
Ioana Stefan
Mälardalen U., Sweden
Oana-Maria Pop
HYPE Innovation
The objective of this symposium is twofold. First, this symposium highlights the nexus of cultural (and indigenous) factors and organizational strategies for innovation and value creation. In doing so, the symposium illuminates informal institutional conditions that enable or constrain long-term strategies in under-resourced institutional contexts in Africa. Second, this symposium reveals novel organizational and inter-organizational forms that support strategies that are aimed at balancing social and economic value creation. Findings from the studies of these novel organizational forms offer theoretical insight for the strategy and innovation literature.
Author: Aloysius Marcus Newenham-Kahindi – U. of Victoria
Author: Charles Edward Stevens – Rutgers U.
Author: Brett Gilbert – American U.
Author: Andrea Marie Hodge – Florida State U.
Author: Mzamo P. Mangaliso – U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Author: Ioana Stefan – Mälardalen U.
Author: Oana-Maria Pop – HYPE Innovation