The Moderating Impact of Informal Institutional Distance and Formal Institutional Risk on SME Entry Mode Choice

By Christian Schwens, Julia Eiche, Ruediger Kabst. 2011

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Foreign market entry mode choice of small and medium-sized enterprises: A systematic review and future research agenda (2014, background): “The second characteristic is that SMEs are highly sensitive to external challenges (e.g., Lu, 2002; Schwens et al., 2011).”
The Concept of Distance in International Business Research: A Review and Research Agenda (2016, unknown): “2004) and others found a positive relationship (e.g. Contractor et al. 2014; Schwens et al. 2011).”
Asset specificity and foreign market entry mode choice of small and medium-sized enterprises: The moderating influence of knowledge safeguards and institutional safeguards (2012, background): “Another commonly studied interaction is between institutional factors and forms of asset specificity (e.g., Dikova & van Witteloostuijn, 2007; Erramilli & Rao, 1993; Schwens et al., 2011), which links institutional theory and TCE-based arguments.”
Institutional Distance and Foreign Subsidiary Performance in Emerging Markets: Moderating Effects of Ownership Strategy and Host-Country Experience (2016, background): “2012; Larsen and Manning 2015), institutional distance has been argued to affect various important decisions such as MNEs’ choice of location (Xu and Shenkar 2002), entry mode (Schwens et al. 2011), and ownership strategy (Eden and Miller 2004), and it remains an important concept in the analysis of”
Beating Competitors to International Markets: The Value of Geographically Balanced Networks for Innovation (2014, background): “Building on and extending Hoang and Rothaermel (2010), who explored the role of developing exploitation- and exploration-related innovations within and across firm boundaries, we argue that the combination of foreign and local network collaboration for innovation can provide a venture with differing”