Understanding the Mechanisms and Boundary Conditions of Inclusive and Traditional Innovations: A Cross-Country Study of Mobile Money and Mobile Broadband
Year: 2023
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This dissertation utilizes the cases of mobile money as an inclusive innovation and mobile broadband as a traditional innovation to investigate the mechanisms and boundary conditions of inclusive and traditional innovations across countries. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the three essays comprising this dissertation. The first essay in Chapter 2 explores how factors such as latent demand and the microentrepreneurial climate mediate the adoption of mobile money services, an inclusive innovation in low-income countries. It offers policy insights for enhancing mobile money adoption. The study employs causal multiple mediation analysis using data from 77 countries. The results reveal that the penetration of mobile money services is influenced by low-income sector membership, with latent demand and microentrepreneurial climate mediating this relationship. The essay confirms the negative effect of economic prosperity on the growth of mobile money services. The second essay in Chapter 3 investigates how the economic or geographic distance between the origin and destination countries of multinational firms influences market entry timing. It also analyzes how this impact differs between EMNEs and DMNEs. The study utilizes a multinational dataset covering 328 market entry timings into mobile broadband markets of 112 countries by 36 major international market operators. It uncovers an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic or geographic distance and entry timing, contrary to the previously assumed linear negative relationship. Notably, this inverted U-shaped relationship is flatter for EMNEs compared to DMNEs. In Chapter 4, the third essay examines how market entry timing mediates the relationship between economic or geographic distance and MNE performance. It also explores how this mediation differs between EMNEs and DMNEs. The dataset used in this analysis comprises 182 market entry timings by 31 major international market operators in 94 countries. The findings confirm a U-shaped indirect effect of economic or geographic distance on MNE performance through entry timing. Additionally, entry timing mediates the indirect effect of economic (or geographic) distance on DMNEs’ performance but not on EMNEs’ performance.
Author: Yaghini, Marzieh
Language: English
Subfield: Business and International Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212337458