A Search for Constructs

Abstract

This article is a derivative of my doctoral thesis at the University of South Africa’s (UNISA) School of Business Leadership (SBL) from 2001 to 2003. The electronic version of the thesis is available on the Unisa Institutional Repository.

An integral part of the study involved developing a grounded understanding of those constructs that may be used for further case study research on the challenges of organisational transformation in non-Western emerging nations, using evidence from four Zimbabwean companies as anchors.

This article is a contribution towards appreciating the fourteen constructs that were unearthed through the study. It also shows how cross-case analysis enhances the refinement of constructs as defining categories of the study of organisational transformation.

I recommend that the fourteen constructs be used in replication studies on organisational transformation in Africa and other non-Western emerging economies.