0 this study examines the "intra-organisational dynamics" of the adoption of internal practices by subsidiaries of internationalised small-and medium-sized enterprises (sMes) from the perspective of institutional theory.
0Based on a survey of 149 foreign subsidiaries of Taiwanese SMEs, the findings show that parent-firm executives of SMEs who are deeply involved in subsidiary operations will assess strong pressure from their home-country institution to adopt internal standard practices within a subsidiary. however, subsidiary executives of sMes who assess heavy pressure from the host-country institution will resist this adoption. 0 When executives of SME parent firms and subsidiaries concurrently assess high pressure but from opposing sources, creating a case of "institutional interaction" within sMes, the subsidiary will either partially adopt a limited but sufficient level of all internal practices or only adopt internal managerial practices while forgoing internal production practices.
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