Networking responses to different levels of institutional void: a comparison of internationalizing SMEs in Egypt and the UK

By Rose Narooz, J. Child. 2017

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This paper reports a comparative qualitative study of how decision-makers in internationalizing SMEs respond to relevant institutions in their domestic environment through networking activity. Twenty SMEs are compared respectively from a developing economy (Egypt) and a developed economy (UK). The two countries contrast both in the effectiveness of their institutional support for SMEs and in their cultural norms towards network relationships. Substantial differences are found between the two national samples in SME decision makers’ networking behaviour in response to specific institutional conditions. The links between institutional conditions, national cultural norms and SME networking responses are explicated in a new theoretical model.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• SME international business models: the role of context and experience (2017, unknown): “Narooz and Child (2017) found that in a developing economy (Egypt), SMEs‟ knowledge of opportunities to internationalize through diversified networks was limited by voids in the support from domestic export-promoting institutions.”