This paper reports the findings from a postal survey investigating selected characteristics of winners of the Queen’s Award for Export, arguably the premier award for export achievement in the UK. It focuses on one part of the study, namely the extent to which standardisation or adaptation of...

Although the need for many ethnic minority‐owned firms to obtain information to enable them to “break‐out” of their cultural niches and enter mainstream markets has been proposed within the small business literature, it has been widely reported that policy makers and other information...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate UK based, family‐owned, Asian firms' motives for internationalising. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reports on eight interviews with the key decision‐makers in UK based, Asian, family‐owned firms. Findings – Differences were found...

Purpose: Coopetition is the interplay between cooperation and competition, involving organisations sharing resources and capabilities with rival entities. Earlier work has suggested that coopetition has a linear (positive) relationship with company performance, with scarce considerations...