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Organizations that operate in international markets need to make the most important decisions in order to select a best mode of entry into foreign markets. This paper attempts to clarify some of the issues arising in international market selection. A firm must assess before entering a particular...
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Over the last decade the growth of service firms, and their internationalisation, has attracted considerable attention from researchers, with a special focus on characteristics that distinguish services from goods. However, as the composition of a firm's product can contain both good and service...
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used with 13 variables- motives for the internationalization of businesses. The SPSS software is used in order to analyze … motivating factors for the internationalization of businesses. While the following factors: economic stability, social stability …
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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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