{"title":"Entrepreneurial desirability and intent among youth in Bhutan","authors":"Dave Valliere, S. Gedeon","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2015.066746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2015.066746","url":null,"abstract":"The Kingdom of Bhutan has embarked on an ambitious programme of entrepreneurial training for youth, with the objective of stimulating increased new venture formation and job creation. The entrepreneurship literature on the drivers of entrepreneurial intent is well–developed for the case of opportunity–seeking individuals in developed countries, but the literature around intent for necessity–based entrepreneurship in emerging countries is much less developed. This study is an exploration into entrepreneurial intent and the precursors of desirability and positive social norms affecting the career decisions of these youths. We surveyed 364 young people with an express interest in business and entrepreneurship, located in Bhutan and Canada (as a typical representative of the scope of prior research into entrepreneurial intent). Our results demonstrate higher entrepreneurial intent and more positive attitudes and social norms in Bhutan than in Canada. These results suggest that new entrepreneurship training programmes in Bhutan should be designed to focus primarily on other aspects, such as building skills and acquiring resources.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126891215","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}
{"title":"Decision–making during small and medium–sized enterprises' internationalisation - effectuation vs. causation","authors":"R. Schweizer","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2015.066744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2015.066744","url":null,"abstract":"Although research on decision–making in small and medium–sized enterprises' (SMEs) international ventures has emphasised various attributes of the decision–maker when trying to explain decisions, few studies have examined the underlying overall mental models used. Exploring the explanatory power of effectuation, this paper discusses how and why SMEs change decision logic related to internationalisation over time. Using decisions made during a Swedish medical technology firm's internationalisation process as the unit of analysis, this paper employs an embedded case study approach. The paper concludes that a decision–maker makes decisions by following the logic of both effectuation and causation independent of the internationalisation stage of a firm. The chosen approach is influenced by the nature of the perceived problem space, existing decision–making routines and heuristics and the inability of decision–makers to learn from previous internationalisation decisions due to the idiosyncratic nature of each foreign expansion.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126997682","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}
{"title":"Constraints in the growth of processed food sector and proposed export strategy: a case study of India","authors":"Rajneesh Mahajan, S. Garg, P. Sharma","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2015.066745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2015.066745","url":null,"abstract":"The objective is to identify the constraints in growth of the processed food sector (PFS) and propose a strategy for boosting exports of processed food from India. An empirical research was conducted. The questionnaire was administered to gather 252 responses. Fifteen PFS constraints were identified, such as lack of traceability (LTE), weak HACCP implementation (WHAP), lack of end to end cold chain (LEC), limited single product cold storage (LSPS), high level of wastages from source to plant (HLW), weak governmemt policies (WGRP), limited warehousing (LWA), lack of quality and connectivity of vehicles (LQCV), weak road transportation (WRT), lack of skilled workers (LSW), inadequate application of IT tools (IAIT), lack of world class quality (LWQ), long and fragmented logistics (LFA), inadequate research and development (IRD), and lack of good technology (LGT). The proposed strategy is to improve post harvest techniques in order to achieve the desired high performance of Indian PFS exports. The present research will be useful for the companies, academia and policy makers.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127863652","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}
{"title":"Beyond entry mode – SME escalation in emerging markets: a conceptual framework","authors":"Yusaf H. Akbar, G. Bortoluzzi, Andrea Tracogna","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2014.064452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2014.064452","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on core theories of international business research, this conceptual paper moves from a focus on the firms’ ‘entry mode’ decisions towards an interesting aspect of small firms’ international behaviour – namely their escalation of commitment to emerging markets. Escalation is the dynamic aspect of the entry strategy (and international form of presence) and refers to the change in the mode of presence that firms experience in a market over time. Several studies report that small and medium sized firms (SMEs) face difficulties in escalating in emerging markets. The paper investigates this issue by building a conceptual framework that links the escalation of a firm’s commitment in an emerging market to a firm’s endowment of resources and capabilities, as well as to the feedback it receives from the market and to the moderating impact of institutional voids – a key contextual aspect of emerging markets.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"363 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115968481","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}
Daria Volchek, Daria Podmetina, S. Saarenketo, A. Jantunen
{"title":"To grow or not to grow: international growth of Russian SMEs in the context of a local institutional environment for entrepreneurship","authors":"Daria Volchek, Daria Podmetina, S. Saarenketo, A. Jantunen","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2014.064449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2014.064449","url":null,"abstract":"The paper elaborates the model for testing the institutional determinants of growth strategy choices. It examines the influence of the domestic institutional environment on the growth strategy choices of Russian small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their subsequent performance. Cross-sectional data was collected from 191 Russian SMEs. The results show that the cognitive component of the institutional environment affects SMEs’ proclivity to internationally based growth, whereas the normative institutional component affect SMEs’ proclivity to innovation-based growth. The performance analysis showed a disordinal interaction between firms’ growth cluster membership, knowledge-intensity and the regional location of the firm. On average, middle and high knowledge-intensive firms achieve bigger sales growth, as well as higher returns on sales and assets. Internationalised SMEs have the highest realised growth. The paper demonstrates the complexity of the institutional determinants of growth strategy choices and performance in emerging economies, and provides recommendations concerning strategic policy objectives.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126968410","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}
{"title":"Marketing strategy in emerging market alliance: a longitudinal study","authors":"A. Hyder, Desalegn Abraha","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2014.064451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2014.064451","url":null,"abstract":"By applying a longitudinal perspective, this study examines how an alliance formulates and implements its marketing strategy based on motives, resources, learning, network and performance, in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). An in-depth study on a Hungarian alliance between a Swedish medical engineering company and a local partner has been conducted. The data is collected in two periods: 1999 and 2009, and for the convenience of the analysis, the result has been presented in two phases. By comparing the phases, it is shown how the environment in which the alliance operates changes and how the alliance responses by improving its marketing strategy. Major variation of the strategy includes focus on small and dental clinics, development of intensive contacts with big hospitals to gain huge contracts after the reformation of the healthcare sector and finding a balance between lowering price and maintaining high quality of the products and services.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115332169","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}
{"title":"Inside the mind of a Global CEO: an interview with Caterpillar CEO Douglas R. Oberhleman","authors":"M. Pettus","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2014.064448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2014.064448","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue of strategies for emerging markets starts with a powerful interview with the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Caterpillar. Caterpillar is viewed by many analysts as a barometer of the health of the global economy. This interview, which was conducted with CEO Oberhelman, provides insights into how emerging markets may develop in the future. His responses are important because he can tell us how to do business in fully developing markets (e.g., BRIC) and also in developing markets of the future. He discusses not only what markets are emerging but also, more importantly, how and why firms should conduct business in these emerging markets. The person who conducted the interview was Michael Pettus, an Associate Professor of Management at the Tabor School of Business at the Millikin University.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124381453","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}
T. Weaver, Ø. Moen, Kari Ståledotter Landstad, Marthe Iversøn Standeren
{"title":"Investigating the international expansion of high growth power providers in emerging markets: motives, management and entry modes","authors":"T. Weaver, Ø. Moen, Kari Ståledotter Landstad, Marthe Iversøn Standeren","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2014.064450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2014.064450","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores motivations for pursuing internationalisation as a strategy in emerging markets. It tracks the internationalisation paths of six international power producers that are active in developed and emerging markets in our analysis with further focus on diverging modes of entry and the entrepreneurial attitude impacts of top-level management. Key takeaways from this contribution are that firms in highly controlled capitally intensive infrastructure industries are highly sensitive to changes in the regulatory environment and that many firms are capturing extreme growth through a variety of entry modes in emerging markets. The paper concludes with implications for policy, academia, and managers alike.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125707475","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}
{"title":"Impact Of The Cultural Learning Process In The Competitiveness And The Change Process","authors":"A. Flores","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2014.063090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2014.063090","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisational culture influence and the impact on the relations among competitiveness and the processes of growth and change. An asset to be taken into account that generates competitiveness is organisational culture, whose own intangibility gives the company an inimitable factor, able to mutate, change and give the internal process of any organisation a high degree of dynamics. We address the issue of organisational culture to be aware of its scope from the perspective of its evolution and the competitiveness it generates. The organisational culture has, as its main goal, to bring together the people's main intentions, while it generates its own dynamics, evolves and develops; it becomes not only enriched, but also questioned, especially when the answers provided by the company are ineffective in meeting the requirements of the environment and its possibility to adapt and grow.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121953401","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}
{"title":"Gender outlook on top management teams: the Israeli case of decision-making dynamics at upper echelons in organisations","authors":"H. Syna, M. Palgi","doi":"10.1504/JIBED.2014.063089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/JIBED.2014.063089","url":null,"abstract":"The current research attempts to discern the hidden aspects of gender structuring in top management teams (TMTs), their antecedents and effects on teams’ and organisations’ performance. Integrating two bodies of knowledge (diversity in teams’ decision-making and women in management), the study examined: 1) women’s formative experiences in TMTs; 2) their voices in decision-making and impact on organisational policy and practice at the strategic level; 3) the participants’ awareness of gender influence on relationships in TMTs, elucidating the salience of social categorisation and mechanisms of potential exclusion. The findings show overt and hidden aspects of women’s patterns of involvement in TMTs. The explicit level reveals significant underrepresentation of women in the upper-echelon teams. The implicit nature of women’s involvement points at their communal functions such as team maintenance, organising and actually doing the work and frequent subtle silencing of their voices. Future research directions and policy implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":133038,"journal":{"name":"J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116718936","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}