SARChI-ID Working Papers
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- 2024-07: The Use of Advanced Technology in South African Agriculture: Insights from selected subsectors

- Alexis Habiyaremye, Phumzile Ncube, Kiru Sichoongwe and Anele Slater
- 2024-06: Chinese manufacturing import penetration and firm performance: Evidence from Belt and Road Initiative countries

- Elvis Avenyo, Danilo Spinola and Fiona Tregenna
- 2024-05: An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Exchange Rate Misalignments, Economic Complexity and Export Diversification

- Neil Foster-McGregor and Danilo Spinola
- 2024-04: Digital Innovation, Localisation and Productive Capabilities in the South African Pharmaceutical Industry

- Lorenza Monaco and Alexis Habiyaremye
- 2024-03: Technological Capability and Industrialisation in Africa

- Emmanuel Mensah and Gideon Ndubuisi
- 2024-02: Green Industrial Policy and Industrialisation in Africa

- Arkebe Oqubay and Jonathan Goldman
- 2024-01: The Strategy and Governance of SOEs in Africa: Lessons Learnt and Policy Implications

- Arkebe Oqubay
- 2023-10: Trade Liberalisation, Household Welfare and Earnings Inequality in South Africa

- Lawrence Edwards and Refilwe Lepelle
- 2023-09: Upgrading Trajectories in South Africa: Exploring the Roles of Customer and Supplier Link Types in Manufacturers’ Economic, Social and Environmental Upgrading

- Rachel Alexander and Aarti Krishnan
- 2023-08: Structural Change and Development Through Agricultural Exports: Performance and Policies

- Christopher Cramer
- 2023-07: Introducing a South African Manufacturing Health Index (SA-MHI): Concept Paper

- Justin Barnes
- 2023-06: Who are the Robots Coming For? The Evolving Task Content of Employment in South Africa

- Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, Timothy Köhler, Jabulile Monnakgotla and François Steenkamp
- 2023-05: Inertia or Progress? Digital Technology Adoption Within a Group of South African Manufacturing SMEs

- Justin Barnes and Warren Sachs
- 2023-04: 4IR Technology Adoption in the South African Airline Industry: Diffusion Patterns and Labour Market Effects

- Alexis Habiyaremye and Lorenza Monaco
- 2023-03: Developing the South African Auto Industry: Lead Firm Sourcing Strategies and Local Productive Capabilities

- Lorenza Monaco and Tobias Wuttke
- 2023-02: Digital Customs Transformation for Effective Trade Facilitation and Revenue Collection

- Lucienne Abrahams, Mark Burke and Trudi Hartzenberg
- 2023-01: The Business Strategies of South African Textile Firms and Global Trends in 4IR and Sustainability Technologies

- Lindsay Whitfield and Vuyiswa Mkhabela
- 2022-14: The Mediating Role of IT Ambidexterity in the Relationship between Artificial Intelligence Capability and Organisational Agility

- Waseem Rawat and Justin Barnes
- 2022-13: Determinants of the Adoption of Digital Technologies in South African Manufacturing: Evidence from a Firm-level Survey

- Elvis K. Avenyo, Jason F. Bell and Julius Nyamwena
- 2022-12: Manufacturing Technology Intensity, Employment, Wages and Capital Formation in Africa

- Richard E. Itaman and Oluwafemi E. Awopegba
- 2022-11: The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Implications for Economic Policy

- Arkebe Oqubay
- 2022-10: African Industrial Hubs and Industrialisation: Diversity, Unevenness, and Strategic Approach

- Arkebe Oqubay
- 2022-09: Digitalisation, Innovation and Productivity in South African Micro- and Small Enterprises

- Cyrielle Gaglio, Erika Kraemer-Mbula and Edward Lorenz
- 2022-08: Industrial policy for prematurely deindustrialized economies after the Covid-19 pandemic crisis: Integrating economic, social and environmental goals with policy proposals for Brazil

- André Nassif and Paulo César Morceiro
- 2022-07: Innovation complementarities in small and micro-enterprises in Johannesburg, South Africa

- Godfrey Kamutando and Fiona Tregenna
- 2022-06: Is Manufacturing in Africa Constrained by Finance? An Empirical Analysis of the Finance Manufacturing Nexus

- Richard Itaman
- 2022-05: Positioning the South African Economy for New Industries: Policy Lessons from East Asia

- Rendani Mamphiswana
- 2022-04: How do cognitive proximity and knowledge networks affect firms’ innovation? Evidence from micro and small firms in Johannesburg, South Africa

- Jefferson Galetti and Fiona Tregenna
- 2022-03: Innovation and socio-economic development challenges in South Africa: An overview of indicators and trends

- Alexis Habiyaremye, Nicola King and Fiona Tregenna
- 2022-02: Firm Innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and Country Context

- Eva Paus, Michael Robinson and Fiona Tregenna
- 2022-01: Industrial Policy for a Just Transition to a Green Economy – The Importance of Regional Food Value Chains in Southern Africa

- Lauralyn Kaziboni and Simon Roberts
- 2021-12: Demand-led Industrialisation Policy in a Dual-sector Small Balance of Payments Constrained Economy

- Önder Nomaler, Danilo Spinola and Bart Verspagen
- 2021-11: Key Opportunities and Challenges for 4IR in South Africa

- Rachel Alexander
- 2021-10: The Fourth Industrial Revolution in South African Manufacturing and Connectivity: Case Studies of Automotive and Mining Equipment Manufacturing, along with Transportation and ICT Infrastructure and Services

- Rachel Alexander
- 2021-09: Assessing the Ability of the National Innovation System of South Africa to Facilitate the Fourth Industrial Revolution

- Rachel Alexander
- 2021-08: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and National Innovation Systems: Key Concepts and Snapshot of South Africa

- Rachel Alexander
- 2021-07: Late Industrialisation under Platform Capitalism

- Wim Naudé
- 2021-06: Creating employment and reducing emissions: Options for South Africa

- Harald Winkler and Anthony Black
- 2021-05: Growth Regimes and Uneven Development in Open Economies: Demand and Distribution Regimes in the context of Global Value Chains

- Arpan Ganguly
- 2021-04: Input-output linkages and interdependence between countries in the southern African development community (SADC)

- Phumzile Ncube and Fiona Tregenna
- 2021-03: Firm Innovation and Employment in South Africa: Examining the Role of Export Participation and Innovation Novelty

- Karmen Naidoo, Marta Bengoa, Erika Kraemer-Mbula and Fiona Tregenna
- 2021-02: Challenges and Complexities of the South African Economy

- Fiona Tregenna, Arabo Ewinyu, Arkebe Oqubay and Imraan Valodia
- 2021-01: Can Apparel Export Industries Catalyse Industrialisation? Combining GVC Participation and Localisation

- Lindsay Whitfield, Kristoffer Marslev and Cornelia Staritz