Pub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029815
I. Akuffo
This study reviewed cross-functional teams and innovation performance of multi-national enterprise from 2008 to 2019. 107 studies were retrieved from EBSCO Discovery, Web of Science, Science Direct, Scopus, and Google scholar. However, only 18 studies out of the 107 related to the review; the remaining studies did not have a direct bearing on the topic under discussion. Two research questions guided this review: 1) how does CFT relate to IP with or without consideration of other factors?; 2) is there consistency in measurement and indicators of IP? The review shows that scant studies have been conducted in the area in the last ten years. It also revealed that methods employed in measuring IP were not consistent, and other factors influence that relationship between CFT and IP. Future studies must employ longitudinal design instead of a survey. Managerial implications and recommendation are discussed.
本研究回顾了2008 - 2019年跨国企业跨职能团队与创新绩效的关系。本文从EBSCO Discovery、Web of Science、Science Direct、Scopus和谷歌scholar中检索了107篇研究。然而，107项研究中只有18项与该综述相关;其余的研究与讨论的题目没有直接关系。两个研究问题指导了本综述:1)考虑或不考虑其他因素时，CFT与知识产权之间的关系如何?2)知识产权的测量和指标是否一致?回顾表明，在过去十年中，在该领域进行的研究很少。研究还发现，衡量知识产权的方法不一致，其他因素影响了CFT与知识产权的关系。未来的研究必须采用纵向设计而不是调查。讨论了管理意义和建议。
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Pub Date : 2020-06-03DOI: 10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029816
Xiaotian Zhang, Raushan Aman, J. Zhang, Y. Xi
This paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature on nonlinear internationalisation by presenting a Chinese SME's experience of nonlinear internationalisation both in terms of fluctuations in sales with every client in each foreign market and the number of foreign markets in which it operates. By analysing the firm's annual activities with 66 foreign clients in 15 foreign markets since its establishment, we found that the firm did not experience constant growth in any of the markets. Moreover, though the number of served markets has grown, only a few of them are among the original export countries. Despite this fact, this firm has grown considerably, although substantial growth was experienced much later than at the company's start-up phase, with some crisis occurring during the process. Thus, fluctuations in internationalisation do not necessarily lead to failure; they may be caused by different external and internal factors, and such fluctuations can occur several times in a particular market.
{"title":"Serial nonlinearities in firm's internationalisation process: case evidence from China","authors":"Xiaotian Zhang, Raushan Aman, J. Zhang, Y. Xi","doi":"10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029816","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature on nonlinear internationalisation by presenting a Chinese SME's experience of nonlinear internationalisation both in terms of fluctuations in sales with every client in each foreign market and the number of foreign markets in which it operates. By analysing the firm's annual activities with 66 foreign clients in 15 foreign markets since its establishment, we found that the firm did not experience constant growth in any of the markets. Moreover, though the number of served markets has grown, only a few of them are among the original export countries. Despite this fact, this firm has grown considerably, although substantial growth was experienced much later than at the company's start-up phase, with some crisis occurring during the process. Thus, fluctuations in internationalisation do not necessarily lead to failure; they may be caused by different external and internal factors, and such fluctuations can occur several times in a particular market.","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128383327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-03DOI: 10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029817
Q. Tran, L. Tran
Many organisations in emerging countries are facing the reform in organisational structure because of the rising wave of global corporations that penetrate their market. Coping with this issue requires an understanding of the modern organisational culture of local organisations. This study aims to explore the organisational culture in Vietnamese organisations. This research adopted the four factors of competing value framework, namely clan, hierarchy, adhocracy and market. A total of 294 Vietnamese people are socialised variously on the basis of their gender, age, working experience and job title in private versus state sectors. Findings showed a significant difference in age and working experience in the current Vietnamese organisational culture. Old and experienced people are linked to market culture whereas young and newcomers are involved with clan culture. These results are valuable for organisations, superiors and practitioners who work with Vietnamese-born workers.
{"title":"Assessment of Vietnamese adult people about the local organisational culture: an examination based on age, gender, job title and government work experience","authors":"Q. Tran, L. Tran","doi":"10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029817","url":null,"abstract":"Many organisations in emerging countries are facing the reform in organisational structure because of the rising wave of global corporations that penetrate their market. Coping with this issue requires an understanding of the modern organisational culture of local organisations. This study aims to explore the organisational culture in Vietnamese organisations. This research adopted the four factors of competing value framework, namely clan, hierarchy, adhocracy and market. A total of 294 Vietnamese people are socialised variously on the basis of their gender, age, working experience and job title in private versus state sectors. Findings showed a significant difference in age and working experience in the current Vietnamese organisational culture. Old and experienced people are linked to market culture whereas young and newcomers are involved with clan culture. These results are valuable for organisations, superiors and practitioners who work with Vietnamese-born workers.","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128420908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-03DOI: 10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029818
Imtiaz Masroor, Md. Nur Alam, Sk. Md. Abrar Hossain, S. M. Misbauddin
The internationalisation process of an entrepreneurial firm is determined by the factors relevant to the entrepreneur's internal decision-making dynamic as well as by external environment-specific factors. International entrepreneurs' selection of effectuation decision-making logic may impact the speed at which he makes foreign market entry outside the domestic market. Moreover, the uncertainty in the environment causes entrepreneurs to adopt effectuation logic. This paper examines the relationship between the adoption of effectuation decision-making logic and the resultant speed of internationalisation. It also investigates uncertainty as a moderating variable to see its impact on the relationship between effectuation and internationalisation speed. This study tested two hypotheses by taking a sample of 150 Bangladeshi small and medium-sized software firms. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and PLS-SEM was used in order to test the hypotheses. The results of the study support the proposition that effectuation decision-making logic results in quick international market entry for the firms. The findings of the study also suggest that uncertainty has a moderating impact on the relationship between effectuation and internationalisation speed.
{"title":"Moderating effect of uncertainty on the relationship between effectuation and internationalisation speed: a study on small and medium software firms of Bangladesh","authors":"Imtiaz Masroor, Md. Nur Alam, Sk. Md. Abrar Hossain, S. M. Misbauddin","doi":"10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijexportm.2020.10029818","url":null,"abstract":"The internationalisation process of an entrepreneurial firm is determined by the factors relevant to the entrepreneur's internal decision-making dynamic as well as by external environment-specific factors. International entrepreneurs' selection of effectuation decision-making logic may impact the speed at which he makes foreign market entry outside the domestic market. Moreover, the uncertainty in the environment causes entrepreneurs to adopt effectuation logic. This paper examines the relationship between the adoption of effectuation decision-making logic and the resultant speed of internationalisation. It also investigates uncertainty as a moderating variable to see its impact on the relationship between effectuation and internationalisation speed. This study tested two hypotheses by taking a sample of 150 Bangladeshi small and medium-sized software firms. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and PLS-SEM was used in order to test the hypotheses. The results of the study support the proposition that effectuation decision-making logic results in quick international market entry for the firms. The findings of the study also suggest that uncertainty has a moderating impact on the relationship between effectuation and internationalisation speed.","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124456711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023412
P. Oppong, U. Dornberger, Md. Noor Un Nabi
The study analyses the direct and indirect effects of entrepreneurial competencies (ECs) on the international performance of small exporting firms. Considering the high importance of ECs, it particularly looks at their direct and indirect impacts on international market diversification (IMD) and profitability. We contribute to the growing research in special areas of internationalisation of SMEs and underscored particular competencies for internationalisation, their interactions and relationships as well as implications for small exporting firms in Ghana and their international performance. Primary data was collected through a survey of 134 small exporting firms from different sectors in Ghana and analysed with structural equation modelling, which was made of nine constructs. The study showed that five identified ECs have direct positive effects on IMD, which also leads to a superior rate of profitability. It furthermore highlighted the mediation effect of IMD which caused indirect effects of ECs on profitability.
{"title":"Analysing the direct and indirect effects of entrepreneurial competencies on international market diversification and profitability: a study of small exporting firms in Ghana","authors":"P. Oppong, U. Dornberger, Md. Noor Un Nabi","doi":"10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023412","url":null,"abstract":"The study analyses the direct and indirect effects of entrepreneurial competencies (ECs) on the international performance of small exporting firms. Considering the high importance of ECs, it particularly looks at their direct and indirect impacts on international market diversification (IMD) and profitability. We contribute to the growing research in special areas of internationalisation of SMEs and underscored particular competencies for internationalisation, their interactions and relationships as well as implications for small exporting firms in Ghana and their international performance. Primary data was collected through a survey of 134 small exporting firms from different sectors in Ghana and analysed with structural equation modelling, which was made of nine constructs. The study showed that five identified ECs have direct positive effects on IMD, which also leads to a superior rate of profitability. It furthermore highlighted the mediation effect of IMD which caused indirect effects of ECs on profitability.","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125460504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.101809
M. Goncalves, E. C. Smith
This study investigates the internationalisation strategies of Lusophone Africa multinational enterprises (LAMNEs) from Angola and Mozambique. While previous scholarship examining the investment decisions and actual investment commitments found that MNEs make choices to internationalise incrementally to reduce uncertainty, this research expands this body of scholarship by identifying Angolan and Mozambican MNEs that were born global or created to become international new ventures (INVs). Key implications of this study suggests that despite several disadvantages faced by entrepreneurs in frontier economies, particularly in Angola and Mozambique LAMNEs relied on external resources to launch themselves into international markets, utilising web-enabled digital and virtual resources, such as the Internet, social media and online professional communities of practice. In addition, most did not enter foreign markets alone and chose to rely on modes of entry that included joint ventures and partnerships, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), e-commerce, and e-business.
{"title":"Internationalisation strategies of African MNEs: a case analysis of Angolan and Mozambican enterprises","authors":"M. Goncalves, E. C. Smith","doi":"10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.101809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.101809","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the internationalisation strategies of Lusophone Africa multinational enterprises (LAMNEs) from Angola and Mozambique. While previous scholarship examining the investment decisions and actual investment commitments found that MNEs make choices to internationalise incrementally to reduce uncertainty, this research expands this body of scholarship by identifying Angolan and Mozambican MNEs that were born global or created to become international new ventures (INVs). Key implications of this study suggests that despite several disadvantages faced by entrepreneurs in frontier economies, particularly in Angola and Mozambique LAMNEs relied on external resources to launch themselves into international markets, utilising web-enabled digital and virtual resources, such as the Internet, social media and online professional communities of practice. In addition, most did not enter foreign markets alone and chose to rely on modes of entry that included joint ventures and partnerships, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), e-commerce, and e-business.","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"780 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116192283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023407
Lamia Ben Hamida, Patrick Ischer
Apart from foreign direct investment (FDI), multinationals' (MNCs) export activities are also a valuable source of knowledge for domestic firms (in the home and the host countries). The aim of this paper is to focus in detail on the role of MNCs' export activities in improving the export performance of domestic firms through export spillovers. In particular, we test whether export activities of both Swiss and foreign MNCs located in Switzerland may benefit the Swiss economy when the export specific knowledge that is experienced on foreign markets may spill over to domestic firms, raising their export propensity. We argue that export spillovers do not occur automatically. They depend upon the mechanism by which they take place, the absorptive capacity of domestic firms, the export destination, and the geographical proximity. We found that the probability that domestic firms exports is positively and significantly associated with the presence of MNCs exporters in their sector. Demonstration-imitation is the main mechanism for these benefits. These benefits are larger when specific by destination and when domestic firms are in close proximity to foreign and Swiss MNCs. In addition, domestic firms with high technological capacities benefit more from export spillovers.
{"title":"Are there export spillovers in manufacturing industry Evidence from Switzerland","authors":"Lamia Ben Hamida, Patrick Ischer","doi":"10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023407","url":null,"abstract":"Apart from foreign direct investment (FDI), multinationals' (MNCs) export activities are also a valuable source of knowledge for domestic firms (in the home and the host countries). The aim of this paper is to focus in detail on the role of MNCs' export activities in improving the export performance of domestic firms through export spillovers. In particular, we test whether export activities of both Swiss and foreign MNCs located in Switzerland may benefit the Swiss economy when the export specific knowledge that is experienced on foreign markets may spill over to domestic firms, raising their export propensity. We argue that export spillovers do not occur automatically. They depend upon the mechanism by which they take place, the absorptive capacity of domestic firms, the export destination, and the geographical proximity. We found that the probability that domestic firms exports is positively and significantly associated with the presence of MNCs exporters in their sector. Demonstration-imitation is the main mechanism for these benefits. These benefits are larger when specific by destination and when domestic firms are in close proximity to foreign and Swiss MNCs. In addition, domestic firms with high technological capacities benefit more from export spillovers.","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131453650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023411
Q. Tran
In this global and international world, organisational culture is a topic often inspected. This research attempts to find out what is the main characteristic of organisational culture in Vietnamese corporations. In total, 276 Vietnamese working adults in two regions in Vietnam participated. The findings from the survey data display that while task orientation is the common organisational culture in current Vietnamese companies, negative attitudes are surprising discovered. Implications are explained for further Vietnamese superiors and subordinates so that they might cooperate effectively in the future.
{"title":"A pilot study on measuring organisational culture in Vietnamese corporations in light of task and relationship orientations","authors":"Q. Tran","doi":"10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEXPORTM.2019.10023411","url":null,"abstract":"In this global and international world, organisational culture is a topic often inspected. This research attempts to find out what is the main characteristic of organisational culture in Vietnamese corporations. In total, 276 Vietnamese working adults in two regions in Vietnam participated. The findings from the survey data display that while task orientation is the common organisational culture in current Vietnamese companies, negative attitudes are surprising discovered. Implications are explained for further Vietnamese superiors and subordinates so that they might cooperate effectively in the future.","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117187846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijexportm.2022.10048615
C. Glavas, Heini Vanninen, J. Mero
{"title":"Harnessing social media business affordances for internationalisation: multiple case study of small and medium-sized enterprises","authors":"C. Glavas, Heini Vanninen, J. Mero","doi":"10.1504/ijexportm.2022.10048615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijexportm.2022.10048615","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126610956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijexportm.2021.10046078
A. Arslan, Obinna Alo
{"title":"International entrepreneurship by African firms: a discussion on constraints and capabilities","authors":"A. Arslan, Obinna Alo","doi":"10.1504/ijexportm.2021.10046078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijexportm.2021.10046078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211724,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Export Marketing","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122682988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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