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This research aims to understand how senior managers in Tanzania navigate institutional challenges and formulate strategies.

March 12, 2026Open Access

Navigating the Institutional Landscape: A Qualitative Exploration of Tanzanian Enterprise Challenges and Strategic Pathways (2000–2026)

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Qualitative exploration reveals strategic adaptation to institutional challenges in Tanzania, suggesting policy improvements.

This research aims to understand how senior managers in Tanzania navigate institutional challenges and formulate strategies.
Qualitative interpretive design with semi-structured interviews.
Involvement of 28 chief executive officers and senior directors from various sectors.
Analysis using a reflexive thematic approach to identify patterns in meaning.
Senior managers highlighted the importance of building trusted personal networks to navigate bureaucratic inefficiencies.
Over two-thirds of participants indicated a need for strategic adaptation to informal norms.
Success depends on effectively negotiating both formal rules and dominant informal norms.

Fatuma Mwinyi (2012) studied this question.

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