Entrepreneurial orientation, management commitment, and human capital: The internationalization of SMEs in India

Javalgi, Rajshekhar G.; Todd, Patricia R.

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.11.024

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“…Extant studies often point to how di↵erent orientations of a firm, such as the entrepreneurial orientation, international market orientation or 49 2. THEORETICAL FRAME growth orientation, impact its internationalization (Javalgi and Todd, 2011;Ruokonen, 2007;Knight and Kim, 2009). These di↵erent orientations directly a↵ect knowledge acquisition and information interpretation within an organization (Dasí et al, 2015).…”

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Contextualization of Evolving Patterns in the Internationalization of Small Firms

2015

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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The internationalization of SMEs has been recognized as one of the important paths to growth in SMEs. However, internationalization is also a resource and competence-demanding process. This is especially true for smaller-sized SMEs – the small and micro-sized firms – which have a large resource constraint, making internationalization even more challenging. Although this group of small firms counts for an average of over 98% of the total population of enterprises in EU countries, extant research on the internationalization of this group is still limited. Therefore, the main purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to a better understanding of evolving patterns of internationalization in the smaller-sized SMEs. The study uses emerging market entry along the internationalization of small firms as a context to probe the dynamics of perceived risk (uncertainty) and perceived opportunity in different foreign markets which influence the important decisions of small firms during their internationalization. The main study takes a longitudinal approach and uses mixed methods to investigate the features in both the initial period and the continued period of internationalization. It mainly builds on a multiple-case study of 12 Swedish firms, which have/had emerging market entry experience and/or involvement. This study illustrates influences from the environmental, organizational and individual levels on evolving patterns of internationalization in the investigated firms. This dissertation concludes that critical decisions and actions taken in the internationalization process depend on interactions among the influence and resources from the three levels. Such interactions form a conditional preference on perceived risk (uncertainty) and perceived opportunity during the internationalization of small firms. The study further proposes that the dynamics in the internationalization process are caused by a prospect-guided change mechanism. This dissertation contributes to the literature by: differentiating patterns of internationalization; enriching the study of “born global” in the continued period of internationalization; introducing a new perspective on the interpretation of dynamics in the internationalization; and increasing the understanding on the interactions of resources from three levels on the internationalization of small firms

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Contextualization of Evolving Patterns in the Internationalization of Small Firms

2015

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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“…The previous researches on the industry of different countries indicate that active companies in the industry sector of each country play important roles in national and economical development of these countries (Javalgi et al, 2011). Entrepreneurship identifies not only the technological inefficiency but also the inefficiency of the time and place in an economy (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000).…”

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A new approach to develop entrepreneurship of the industry using fuzzy DEMATEL

Alroaia¹,

Hemati²,

Javadinia³

2012

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Today, development of economic activity and employment is known as an effective strategy for economical and social development of the countries. Entrepreneurship in Iran is also as the most executive and practical strategy to exit the economical and social deadlock and problems. However, entrepreneurship development needs identifying and removing existed obstacles and problems. There are a lot of researches about obstacles and restrictions on entrepreneurship but, to the best of our knowledge, there is no research to identify vital factors and degree of their effect on the network of factors .In this paper using DEMATEL technique, the entrepreneurial barriers in the industry of Iran are categorized in 2 groups of cause and effect. We also use fuzzy concept to handle any ambiguity on the feedbacks gathered from decision makers. To achieve this purpose, at first using views of professors and active managers in the field of entrepreneurial and also related books and using Delphi technique, 9 vital factors are identified and they are analyzed in two groups of internal and external obstacles in the industrial sector of Iran .The research chooses 100 most active companies in one of the industrial poles of Iran for the proposed study of this paper. Furthermore, questionnaires are distributed among the top managers of these companies, to analyze the barriers in entrepreneurship in the industry. The results show that two factors of "kind of management" and "organizational structure" are the most important factors. In addition, "legal obstacles" and" optimum use of financial resources" are at the highest degree of impression on business units.

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“…International scale (sometimes called international intensity or international degree) and international scope are the common dimensions of international performance (Autio et al, 2000;Frishammar & Andersson, 2008;Javalgi & Todd, 2011;Ripolles et al, 2007;Robertson & Chetty, 2000;Sullivan, 1994;Zahra & George, 2002;Zahra et al, 1997;Zhang et al, 2012). In a review study of international performance, Walters and Samiee (1990) demonstrated that 68% of reviewed papers implemented international scale and 13% employed international scope to measure international performance.…”

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“…Even though this may reduce the generalizability of the results, it is needed to achieve valid and reliable conclusions. Firm size (Balabanis & Katsikea, 2003;Dhanaraj & Beamish, 2003;Francis & Collins-Dodd, 2000) and previous international experience (Axelsson & Agndal, 2000;Javalgi & Todd, 2011;Kuivalainen et al, 2007;Lan & Wu, 2010;Reuber & Fischer, 1997) are also represented as factors that may influence the decision and subsequent activities of internationalization. Thus, they are usually controlled in internationalization research (e.g.…”

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The Internationalization of SMEs: An Interactive Perspective of Firm-Level Entrepreneurship and Network Structure

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The positive relationship of firm-level entrepreneurship and performance has received much attention in recent years and has become an attractive title in the entrepreneurship literature. This popularity encourages researchers to study the role played by the phenomenon on other organizational outputs such as internationalization. Until now, the majority of international studies have put their attention on the conceptual explanation of the interaction, and the number of empirical studies on the subject is few. Furthermore, almost all the empirical studies have been performed in developed and emerging markets, and developing areas such as the Middle East are nearly ignored. In the real context of Iranian business, policymakers support entrepreneurship as a proven way to improve the internationalization of smaller companies. Following this assumption, several supportive plans have been designed and executed which aim to increase the entrepreneurial status of SMEs as a way to enhance their internationalization. A question worth answering here is: Does having a better entrepreneurial stature mean better internationalization for Iranian SMEs? To answer this question and to fill the gap in the literature on the subject, this research explains the relationship of firm-level entrepreneurship and the internationalization of Iranian SMEs. To resolve the current conceptualization problem of firm-level entrepreneurship and to respect a broad conceptualization of entrepreneurship, a profile measurement model was employed in which companies are classified into four different groups: non-entrepreneurial, forced entrepreneurial, latent entrepreneurial, and actual entrepreneurial. This profile model incorporates the two popular constructs of entrepreneurial orientation and corporate entrepreneurship to determine the entrepreneurial stature of a company. Surprisingly, while the literature predicted the highest level of internationalization for actual entrepreneurial companies, the forced entrepreneurial firms showed the best internationalization in reality. The only exception was when the environments became very hostile, in which the actual entrepreneurial SMEs suppressed the forced entrepreneurial, showing better internationalization. These unexpected conclusions led the researcher to consider the complementary role of business networks. A case study approach was applied. The results revealed the importance of actor type in the decision to enter a foreign market, structural holes in identifying international opportunities, and network closure in realizing the opportunities. In simpler words, the forced entrepreneurial company held a better position to receive the information about international markets because most actors who dealt with them where international companies. In addition, it enjoyed an external network rich of structural holes and a dense internal network, which respectively facilitated the exploration and exploitation of subsequent international opportunities. All in all, however, firm-level entrepreneurship seems a...

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Entrepreneurial orientation, management commitment, and human capital: The internationalization of SMEs in India

Cited by 307 publications

References 82 publications

Contextualization of Evolving Patterns in the Internationalization of Small Firms

Contextualization of Evolving Patterns in the Internationalization of Small Firms

A new approach to develop entrepreneurship of the industry using fuzzy DEMATEL

The Internationalization of SMEs: An Interactive Perspective of Firm-Level Entrepreneurship and Network Structure

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