John M. Luiz

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the key elements that South African financial services firms consider before making foreign direct investments in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) markets, and found that financial service firms are most strongly influenced by the political and economic stability of the country in question as well as the profitability and long-term sustainability of its specific markets.

TL;DR: The authors examined the entrepreneurial traits of a diverse group of young adults in South Africa and found that socio-economic elements play a noteworthy role in people's perceptions of the value of entrepreneurship and thus need to be incorporated in entrepreneurial models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a measure called ethno-linguistic fractionalization (ELF), which captures the ethnic and/or linguistic diversity in a country and examine its implications on existing cultural measures.

TL;DR: The authors express their unease with one-sided invitations into the Northern mainstream, as well as with Southern critics' retreat into indigenous enclaves of organizational scholarship, and use this dichotomy to support their work.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that political instability in South Africa may not represent uncertainty directly, since it is systematically related to a set of determinants that in concert may generate uncertainty for investors.