Iran–China Relations: A Game Changer in the Eastern World

Caba-Maria, Flavius

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-3564-9_10

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“…As such, this research is carried out in the context of Iran, which is characterized by an ever‐volatile domestic environment (e.g. high inflation rate, currency fluctuations) and international restrictions, such as sanctions (Caba‐Maria, 2021), which disrupt foreign operations. Therefore, the failure to develop dynamic capabilities increases the fragility of Iranian small internationalizers against an unfavourable institutional environment at national and international levels and fosters the propensity to de‐internationalize.…”

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Understanding the De‐internationalization of Entrepreneurial SMEs in a Volatile Context: A Reconnoitre on the Unique Compositions of Internal and External Factors

Jafari‐Sadeghi

Mahdiraji

Budhwar

et al. 2022

British J of Management

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In recent years, the global business environment has witnessed a wave of deinternationalization not only among multinationals but also among small-and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). This disengagement of cross-border activities is deemed to be driven by various firm-specific factors, as well as by external factors. Building on the premise of the non-linear internationalization debate and focusing on the dynamic capabilities view and institutional theory, this paper aims to disentangle the extent to which internal factors (IFs) and external factors (EFs) drive SMEs towards deinternationalization. To do this, we take advantage of a hybrid multilayer decisionmaking mathematical modelling approach to explore SME de-internationalization at two levels. Our findings at the exhaustive level contribute to the de-internationalization literature by proposing distinct frameworks that highlight the interrelationship amongst IFs and EFs. And our results at the subordinate level constitute the identification of four unique compositions leading to different de-internationalization modes. In this vein, we define two categories of factors, namely reducing and terminating factors, which drive SMEs into respectively partial and full de-internationalization.

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confidence: 99%