Understanding Decisions to Internationalize by Small and Medium-sized Firms Located in an Emerging Market

We examined perceptions differentiating key Colombian decisionmakers in 168 SMEs who decided to either internationalize or remain domestic. An integrative model compares managerial perceptions of competitive, macro-environmental and neo-institutional factors. • Foreign MNEs in the home market significantly differentiated decisions to internationalize, as well as the presence of internationalizing domestic competitors, anticipated product acceptance, and internationalizing suppliers. • The lack of findings for some institutional and macro-environmental factors may reflect important contextual features of the Colombian business environment. © 2009 Gabler-Verlag.

• Autores: Frances, Fabian; Labianca, Giuseppe; Molina Mogollón, Henry
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2009
• Institución: Universidad ICESI
• Repositorio: Repositorio ICESI
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/78301
• Acceso en línea: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77955044846&partnerID=tZOtx3y1; http://hdl.handle.net/10906/78301; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11575-009-0007-6
• Palabra clave: Empresas internacionales; International business enterprises; Mercados emergentes; Emerging markets; Toma de decisiones; Decision making; Internacionalización; Internationalization; Pymes - Colombia; Economía; Economics; Negocios y management; Business; Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Económicas; Gestión Organizacional
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/