{"title":"Trade and sustainability: Three decades of change across Africa","authors":"Christopher B. Yenkey, N. Hill","doi":"10.1080/23322373.2021.2001290","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Macro-level sustainability indicators have declined for African countries over the last three decades both in absolute terms and relative to non-African countries. Over these same years, trade relations for African exporters have changed significantly in terms of products exported as well as trade partners involved. In this paper, we explore several indicators that may link these changes in trade to the decline in sustainable development across Africa. We create a novel longitudinal dataset that combines specific configurations of products exported to different types of trade partners with country-level sustainability outcomes. We use time series models to identify which of these indicators are significantly associated with sustainability for African countries and compare those to the predominant viewpoints of African development such as the natural resource curse and the call for greater African self-reliance. We find an interesting set of non-results that contradict several common viewpoints, but we find a significant negative association between intra-African supply chain development and lower sustainability. Our results support firm-state development planning by identifying sector-partner configurations linked to sustainability outcomes across Africa as well as future firm-level work to consider how firms headquartered outside of developing countries may address sustainability.","PeriodicalId":37290,"journal":{"name":"Africa Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Africa Journal of Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2021.2001290","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Macro-level sustainability indicators have declined for African countries over the last three decades both in absolute terms and relative to non-African countries. Over these same years, trade relations for African exporters have changed significantly in terms of products exported as well as trade partners involved. In this paper, we explore several indicators that may link these changes in trade to the decline in sustainable development across Africa. We create a novel longitudinal dataset that combines specific configurations of products exported to different types of trade partners with country-level sustainability outcomes. We use time series models to identify which of these indicators are significantly associated with sustainability for African countries and compare those to the predominant viewpoints of African development such as the natural resource curse and the call for greater African self-reliance. We find an interesting set of non-results that contradict several common viewpoints, but we find a significant negative association between intra-African supply chain development and lower sustainability. Our results support firm-state development planning by identifying sector-partner configurations linked to sustainability outcomes across Africa as well as future firm-level work to consider how firms headquartered outside of developing countries may address sustainability.
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The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.
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