Debrah, Yaw A and Olabode, Oluwaseun E and Olan, Femi and Nyuur, Richard B (2024) The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Taking stock and looking ahead for international business research. Journal of International Management, 30 (2). p. 101120. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2024.101120
Debrah, Yaw A and Olabode, Oluwaseun E and Olan, Femi and Nyuur, Richard B (2024) The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Taking stock and looking ahead for international business research. Journal of International Management, 30 (2). p. 101120. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2024.101120
Debrah, Yaw A and Olabode, Oluwaseun E and Olan, Femi and Nyuur, Richard B (2024) The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Taking stock and looking ahead for international business research. Journal of International Management, 30 (2). p. 101120. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2024.101120
Abstract
The establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has opened new avenues of research interest in International Business and International Management. However, scholarly work in this fledgling area of research has been disparate and often lacking in the assessment of core international business implications of the emergence of the AfCFTA on member states as well as non-member states. This is because, as yet, no systematic attempt has been made to explore the AfCFTA in the context of IB research, or project future IB research directions. Hence, in this paper, using the PRISMA method we have systematically identified the current published research and scholarly work on the AfCFTA and provided a robust picture of the current state of knowledge and available literature on the AfCFTA while at the same time outlining potential areas for future international business research.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | African continental free trade area; AfCFTA; International business; Systematic literature review; Informal cross-border trade; Regional economic communities (RECs) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2024 08:15 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:19 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37820 |
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