The historical ties have had limited explorations in the international business literature review. The existing studies have focused on overseas with countries having historic colonization relations, thus making the concept underrepresented in an African context. African country relations present different dynamics when it relates to historical ties. We adopt an exploratory approach for this research to investigate the historical tie factors as an influence for foreign direct investment (FDI) by looking into South Africa and Mozambique. The research contributes to academic literature expansion and for business to understand opportunities of cross-border trades/FDI flows as a result of either formal or informal historical ties. The study relies on the institutional based theory to understand the role played through historical ties and the implications on FDI flows. A total of 09 qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with policy makers within the public sectors and companies participating in FDI to Mozambique from the private sector. The study results reveal that historical ties have an influence on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. However, a number of formal and informal factors need to be considered in order to create an environment that positively enhances FDI flows especially between South Africa and Mozambique. / Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Corporate Strategy))--University of Pretoria, 2021. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / MPhil (Corporate Strategy) / Unrestricted

This paper analyzes the Spain’s immigrants’ integration policy with the aim to reveal Spain’s national approach model using path dependence as a theory to search for the consistent and stable constraining or motivating ideas that dictate the direction of Spain’s immigrants’ integration policy. This paper finds out that the public philosophy of Spain is premised on historical ties, the interest is motivated by shared culture and the problem definition is framed based on the country of origin of the immigrants. However, these ideas make Spain’s immigrants’ policy to be restrictive or liberal to some group of immigrants depending on their country of origin. Immigrants from Third country nationals consisting of Latin- America, Andorra, the Philippines, Guinea Equatorial, Portugal and the Sephardic Jews who have had historical experience acquire Spanish Nationality faster than the other immigrants from third country nationals composed mainly of Morocco, Africa and Asia because of the way laws regulating immigrants acquisition of Spanish nationality is designed.