An institution-based view of international entrepreneurship: A comparison of context-based and universal determinants in developing and economically advanced countries

Jafari‐Sadeghi, Vahid; Nkongolo-Bakenda, Jean-Marie; Anderson, Robert B.; Dana, Léo‐Paul

doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2019.101588

Cited by 97 publications

(75 citation statements)

References 81 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…These resources are inputs for the firm's strategy and highly influence its national and international performance. However, when it comes to small and medium-sized businesses, they are known for lack of firm-level resources (Sadeghi et al, 2019;Sakhdari et al, 2020). Therefore, SMEs highly rely on intangible individual-level resources such as managerial resources, their knowledge, innovativeness, etc.…”

Section: The Resource-based View and Managerial Resources And Dynamic Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, our MCDM analysis proposed a framework for the inter-and cross-relationship of the drivers where the sample size was limited to ten international SMEs' central decision-makers. This is due to the indication of the literature that highlights to ensure the quality of findings and accuracy of responses, the most knowledgeable person should be engaged in the research (Sadeghi et al, 2019). As such, international managers/entrepreneurs are engaged in this research.…”

Section: Research Limitation and Suggestion For Further Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, several shortcomings and gaps have been found in extant research. To start with, international entrepreneurship scholars have advocated a focus at different levels: some on the environmental characteristics (e.g., Bruton et al, 2010;Sadeghi et al, 2019), others on business characteristics (e.g., Henley & Song, 2020), however, there has been less attention to lower levels, in particular at the individual level (Adams et al, 2009;Gavetti, 2005). The scant research suggests more exploration of micro-foundations perspectives that potentially are more fundamental and stable (Chittoor et al, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, in the exploration of the micro-foundations of SME internationalisation, the context plays an important role. In this regard, Sadeghi et al (2019) argue that context-specific factors are particularly dependent on the characteristics of the people and place of SMEs. Such factors might not be influential for entrepreneurial internationalisation in other contexts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Context-specific micro-foundations and successful SME internationalisation in emerging markets: A mixed-method analysis of managerial resources and dynamic capabilities

Jafari‐Sadeghi

Mahdiraji

Bresciani

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Building on the resource-based view, this study aims to address the scant research on the context-specific microfoundations that impact on internationalisation of SMEs in emerging markets. Therefore, the paper explores managerial resources and dynamic capabilities in three categories of international networking, vision, and experience and competence. In this regard, we employ a mixed-method analysis and focus on Iran as representative of a low supportive institutional context for SME internationalisation belongs to emerging markets. Hence, in qualitative analysis, we utilise multiple case study and conduct ten interviews, which led to the identification of fourteen important managerial resources and capabilities. This is followed by expert-based decision-making approaches, taking advantage of interpretive structural modelling (ISM) and Matrix-based Multiplication Applied to a Classification (MICMAC), which contributed to investigation the relative function of identified factors as well as proposing a conceptual framework for the inter-and cross-relationships among explored drivers in three targeted categories and provides theoretical and practical suggestions.

show abstract

Section: The Resource-based View and Managerial Resources And Dynamic Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Limitation and Suggestion For Further Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Context-specific micro-foundations and successful SME internationalisation in emerging markets: A mixed-method analysis of managerial resources and dynamic capabilities

Jafari‐Sadeghi

Mahdiraji

Bresciani

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…• First, the definition of the missions and clear objectives help each employee understand what the organization desires and provides a concentration on the operations (communication purpose) (Niven, 2006). • Second, by the measurement of performance considering the objectives, policymakers and public managers need to be able to explain to the public for what purposes their money has been used ("transparency/accountability purpose") (Hajiagha Razavi, Mahdiraji, Hashemi, & Turskis, 2015;Jafari-Sadeghi, Nkongolo-Bakenda, Anderson, & Dana, 2019;Moullin, 2017 Blackman, O 'Donnell, O'Flynn, & West, 2015;Hajiagha, Mahdiraji, Zavadskas, & Hashemi, 2014). • Fourth, the performance measurement systems can provide a basis for the compensation of public officials (appraising purpose) (Armstrong, 2000;Jamalnia, Mahdiraji, Sadeghi, Hajiagha, & Feili, 2014).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Untitled

2020

JEMI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION is an interdisciplinary, double blind-reviewed journal, emphasizing theoretical and empirical articles in entrepreneurship, management, innovation and related fields. The journal is published both in printed form and on-line at www.jemi.edu.pl. THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AREA OF THE JOURNAL The entrepreneurship area of the journal covers the three major topics: 1) venture creation and small business, 2) the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth including local and regional development, and 3) entrepreneurial attitudes and motives. We invite original papers of theoretical and empirical nature, rooted in the disciplines of economics, management, sociology, political science, and psychology. The interdisciplinary research is encouraged to assure a comprehensive approach to the topics discussed and to advance both theory and practice. THE MANAGEMENT AREA OF THE JOURNAL Management, as a thematic scope of the journal, focuses on theoretical and empirical considerations of various areas, such as: strategic management, operation or production management, human resource management, information and management, contemporary management problems, new methods and management tools, new forms of organization and management, new threats in management, or new challenges in the organization's environment. THE INNOVATION AREA OF THE JOURNAL The innovation area of the Journal's focus will emphasize a broad range of topics and approaches, including (but not limited to): 1) role of private and public sector in development and diffusion of innovations, 2) product, process and business model innovations, 3) profiles of innovative products, structures and processes, aimed at improving management practice and providing inspiration for entrepreneurs, 4) comparative analyses of national, regional policy or sector issues, such as R&D trends, patents, citations etc., 5) theoretical work on economic, organizational and scientific aspects of innovation, encouraging the search for inspirations from various disciplines, including natural sciences, arts and humanities. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE AREA OF THE JOURNAL The entrepreneur or entrepreneurial firm, the institutions providing finance to the entrepreneurs, and the different types of financial sources used by the entrepreneurial firms or investors. Among the areas of our special interests might be enumerated: accounting and corporate finance, financial market as a background for SME development, entrepreneurial finance, regulatory and supervisory aspects related to corporate finance.

show abstract

Business process transformation in financial market: A hybrid BPM‐ELECTRE TRI for redesigning a securities company in the Iranian stock market

Mahdiraji

Hafeez

Hajiagha

2020

Knowl Process Manag

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

PurposeBusiness Process Management is a systematic way to design, implement and manage business critical processes at different organizational levels to ensure business sustainability. In this paper, we conduct a business process re‐engineering exercise for KBK Securities Co., a small size security company operating in Iranian stock and mercantile market. The company suffered from in‐efficiencies and poor and delayed decision‐making due to poor visibility and complexity with business critical processes.DesignWe employed a semi‐quantitative approach using ELECTRE TRI decision‐making method to identify the business critical processes. Through document analysis, we identified 103 financial and stock market processes to streamlining purposes. We use Multi‐Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) and ELECTRE TRI methods for first, arriving to a consensus for the imprecise information elicited from a group of departmental managers, and second making a decision‐making to determine the 32 business critical processes out of 103, and third clustering these processes for business process re‐engineering. We make significant contribution in theory by employing a multi criterion decision‐making (MCDM) in the financial sector in the context of a developing economy like Iran.OriginalityWe provide a structured framework along with an off the shelf software tool for practitioners to implement this approach to rationalize the number of processes and subsequently to improve the business critical processes to enhance financial performance in the stock market.FindingsOur findings suggest that company can cut down approximately 68% waste by reducing its business critical processes and spend their available time and resources in growing the business.

show abstract

An institution-based view of international entrepreneurship: A comparison of context-based and universal determinants in developing and economically advanced countries

Cited by 97 publications

References 81 publications

Context-specific micro-foundations and successful SME internationalisation in emerging markets: A mixed-method analysis of managerial resources and dynamic capabilities

Context-specific micro-foundations and successful SME internationalisation in emerging markets: A mixed-method analysis of managerial resources and dynamic capabilities

Untitled

Business process transformation in financial market: A hybrid BPM‐ELECTRE TRI for redesigning a securities company in the Iranian stock market

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About