Lettice Rutashobya
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lettice Rutashobya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lettice |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutashobya |
| SIGNATURE | RUTASHOBYA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dar es Salaam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Role of Managerial Social Ties in Firm Performance
This article explores the role of managerial social ties in the performance of grain-milling firms in Tanzania. Specifically, it explores the composition of managerial social ties, investigates the resources embedded in the explored ties, and examines their influence on firm performance. A qualitative study was done based on 22 case studies of grain-milling firms operating in selected commercial cities in Tanzania. The findings reveal the major t…
Doing and undoing gender in rice business and marketplaces in Tanzania
This paper contributes to the gender-and-marketplace literature by exploring whether and how the ongoing, under-researched food-to-cash crop transformation of rice in Tanzania reinforces or challenges the “doing of gender”. We apply Acker’s “doing gender” framework, where gender is done by following normative conceptions and undone by challenging them. We analyze women and men’s everyday practices and relations in terms of identities, divisions, …
Covid-19
Like the rest of the world, African countries are reeling from the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. The continent’s governments have responded by imposing rigorous lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus. The various lockdown measures are undermining food security, because stay at home orders have among others, threatened food production for a continent that relies heavily on agriculture as the bedrock of the economy. This arti…
Navigating institutional complexities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how female entrepreneurs navigate complex and challenging institutional environments. It draws on institutional theory and the concept of response strategies to institutional pressures to explore the institutional barriers that female entrepreneurs encounter and highlights the strategies women employ to overcome them. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds on a case study of female entreprene…
Training abroad and technological capacity building
Coping with the African Business Environment
Weak institutions, endemic market failures and low trust permeate the Tanzanian business environment. Nevertheless, some local enterprises overcome these challenges. Based on case studies of Tanzanian food processing enterprises, this paper identifies a number of coping strategies that contrasts markedly with the strategies traditionally emphasized by the strategic management literature: Instead of focus strategies, Tanzanian enterprises diversif…
Coping with the African Business Environment
Weak institutions, endemic market failures and low trust permeate the Tanzanian business environment. Nevertheless, some local enterprises overcome these challenges. Based on case studies of Tanzanian food processing enterprises, this paper identifies a number of coping strategies that contrasts markedly with the strategies traditionally emphasized by the strategic management literature: Instead of focus strategies, Tanzanian enterprises diversif…
Navigating institutional complexities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how female entrepreneurs navigate complex and challenging institutional environments. It draws on institutional theory and the concept of response strategies to institutional pressures to explore the institutional barriers that female entrepreneurs encounter and highlights the strategies women employ to overcome them. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds on a case study of female entreprene…
Covid-19
Like the rest of the world, African countries are reeling from the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. The continent’s governments have responded by imposing rigorous lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus. The various lockdown measures are undermining food security, because stay at home orders have among others, threatened food production for a continent that relies heavily on agriculture as the bedrock of the economy. This arti…
Training abroad and technological capacity building
Training abroad and technological capacity building
Coping with the African Business Environment
Weak institutions, endemic market failures and low trust permeate the Tanzanian business environment. Nevertheless, some local enterprises overcome these challenges. Based on case studies of Tanzanian food processing enterprises, this paper identifies a number of coping strategies that contrasts markedly with the strategies traditionally emphasized by the strategic management literature: Instead of focus strategies, Tanzanian enterprises diversif…
Navigating institutional complexities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how female entrepreneurs navigate complex and challenging institutional environments. It draws on institutional theory and the concept of response strategies to institutional pressures to explore the institutional barriers that female entrepreneurs encounter and highlights the strategies women employ to overcome them. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds on a case study of female entreprene…
Doing and undoing gender in rice business and marketplaces in Tanzania
This paper contributes to the gender-and-marketplace literature by exploring whether and how the ongoing, under-researched food-to-cash crop transformation of rice in Tanzania reinforces or challenges the “doing of gender”. We apply Acker’s “doing gender” framework, where gender is done by following normative conceptions and undone by challenging them. We analyze women and men’s everyday practices and relations in terms of identities, divisions, …
Covid-19
Like the rest of the world, African countries are reeling from the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. The continent’s governments have responded by imposing rigorous lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus. The various lockdown measures are undermining food security, because stay at home orders have among others, threatened food production for a continent that relies heavily on agriculture as the bedrock of the economy. This arti…
Role of Managerial Social Ties in Firm Performance
This article explores the role of managerial social ties in the performance of grain-milling firms in Tanzania. Specifically, it explores the composition of managerial social ties, investigates the resources embedded in the explored ties, and examines their influence on firm performance. A qualitative study was done based on 22 case studies of grain-milling firms operating in selected commercial cities in Tanzania. The findings reveal the major t…
Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Tanzania (4 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (3 works) · Marketing (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Socioeconomics (3 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)