The impacts of network relationships on SMEs' internationalization process
By Mohamed Zain, Siew Imm Ng. 2006
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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Decision mode, information and network attachment in the internationalization of SMEs: A configurational and contingency analysis (2014, background): “The stimulus to export is likely to come from an unsolicited order, an unsolicited offer to partner with a business abroad, or a fortuitous suggestion by a member of their network (Zain & Ng, 2006).”
- Boundaries of Social Capital in Entrepreneurship (2013, neutral): “If resource-poor, nascent entrepreneurs cannot access resource-rich social networks, they probably cannot overcome their initial disadvantages (Zain & Ng, 2006, p. 184).”
- International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research (2012, neutral): “…Young et al. (2003) Zafarullah et al. (1997) (Zahra 2005, 2003) Zahra and Hayton (2008) Zahra et al. (2000) Zahra et al. (2005) Zahra et al. (2007) Zain and Ng (2006) Zarei et al. (2011) Zettinig and Bensonrea (2008) Zhang and Dodgson (2007) Zhang et al. (2009) Zhou (2007) Zhou et al. (2007)…”
- Internationalization of knowledge-intensive SMEs: The role of network relationships in the entry to a psychically distant market (2009, background): “…general entry patterns, indicating that knowledge-intensive firms tend to reactively follow their existing formal or informal relationship to foreign markets (Bell, 1995; Coviello & Munro, 1995, 1997; Coviello & Martin, 1999; Moen et al., 2004; Sharma & Blomstermo, 2003; Zain & Ng, 2006).”
- Small- and medium-sized enterprise internationalization: Towards the knowledge-based model (2010, background): “Furthermore, in high-tech industries, it has been found that having a network stimulated firms to initiate internationalization ( Zain and Ng 2006 )”
- Social ties and international entrepreneurship: Opportunities and constraints affecting firm internationalization (2011, background): “…social ties are thought to lower the transaction costs (Rutashobya & Jaensson, 2004), risk (Sharma & Blomstermo, 2003) and uncertainty (Zain & Ng, 2006) associated with foreign market entry while at the same time promoting credibility and trust among exchange partners (Loane & Bell,…”