This paper investigates the importance of cultural factors within ethnic minority‐owned firms’ business practices. In doing so, it provides a contribution to the growing body of knowledge at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface and reports specifically on an empirical investigation into...

Reports on the findings from an exploratory study investigating the export practices of UK clothing and knitwear manufacturing firms. Attempts to examine several key export marketing factors relating specifically to export development and performance characteristics, international market...

Provides empirical evidence of the export marketing practices of ethnic minority‐owned small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK clothing industry. Provides a contribution to the literature since, although a large body of literature exists on the areas of exporting, SMEs, and to a...

This study provides empirical evidence concerning the perceived usefulness of sources of export information together with types of data required by Asian and indigenous (white)‐owned small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. Findings are primarily based on a large‐scale sample...

Reports on an ongoing empirical study into the characteristics and strategies of “successful” technologically oriented UK firms. Using survey data from samples of winners of the Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement and a comparative group of high‐technology firms, the study...

This paper reports on a longitudinal investigation into two groups of UK firms’ use of trade missions in psychologically distant countries. Firms in the first group were “new” to the markets, that is, having never visited the markets under investigation prior to attending the trade mission...

Previous studies have shown that lack of information can provide an obstacle to firms’ endeavour to be competitive in oversea markets. This study provides empirical data that examine how managers of internationalising UK high‐technology firms perceive the usefulness of overseas market...

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...