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This paper develops resource dependency and institutional theory arguments for explaining SME involvement in direct and indirect (via intermediaries) export activity. Based on resource dependency theory, we argue that a desire to leverage resources in a favorable home market may explain SME...
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investigating the process of internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Bell, McNaughton, Young & Crick, (2003 …) emphasized the need for researchers to re-conceptualize their thinking on the internationalization process of smaller firms ….While there has been substantial research done on the small business internationalization and how the participation of these firms …
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This paper integrates institution-, industry-, and resource-based views of internationalization and demonstrates that …
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Retailing is rapidly becoming a global industry and many retailers are expanding to foreign markets. However, several retailers successful in their home countries have failed in emerging markets such as Chile. Little is known why these retailers succeed in some venues and not others. A case...
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implications of this new knowledge. Building on the internationalization literature, the knowledge based view (KBV) and Penrose …’s growth advantage in international markets and to further internationalization. In addition, the study shows that it provides …
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This dissertation investigates how institutional environments and firm resources influence firm scope. Building on strategy and international business literatures, I propose that institutional environments influence firm scope through the impacts on both the development of internal resources and...
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Brazilian slaughter houses under the internationalization economic theories. The objectives are (i) to analyze the foreign entry … Brazilian slaughter houses internationalization process confirms the economic theory of Dunning (1993) when he suggests …
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beguninternational expansion, intensifying exports, primarily to EU markets,· stage three, during which the internationalization took the …
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Internationalization is one of the most important trends in retailing today. This process is not new, however … regarded as driving forces of structural change in the agri food business. The understanding ofretail internationalization is … builds on the theories of the wider business internationalization literature. Other authorsstate that retailing is unique …
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Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into international markets. Many enterprises, especially small- and medium-size firms (SMEs), are internationalising today at an unprecedented rate. Managers are strategically using...
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