Locational Factors and Foreign Market-entry Considerations for Malaysian Contractors
Past studies on contractor internationalisation adopt a unimodelapproach. Taking up the call of a few scholars, a study isconducted, this time by integrating several extant models of fi rminternationalisation. Malaysian international contractors are usedto test this approach. Due to space limitation...
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| description | Past studies on contractor internationalisation adopt a unimodelapproach. Taking up the call of a few scholars, a study isconducted, this time by integrating several extant models of fi rminternationalisation. Malaysian international contractors are usedto test this approach. Due to space limitation, this paper is focusedonly on locational factors. It begins by justifying the inclusion oflocational factors in a multi-model approach. Then it posits thatlocational disadvantage is a more intellectually appealing conceptthan locational advantages. Empirically, it shows that the surveyedcontractors evaluate a wide range of factors before making thego/no go decision to enter foreign markets. It also shows thatpsychic distance was not their major concern. Finally, the locationaldisadvantages create a market space for international contractorswith the tenacity to overcome them, which the sampled populationpossessed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ce6dca5cdb24c9299233762eb2cb2bb2022-12-21T23:57:15ZengUTS ePRESSConstruction Economics and Building2204-90292012-11-019110.5130/AJCEB.v9i1.30121976Locational Factors and Foreign Market-entry Considerations for Malaysian ContractorsA.R Abdul_Aziz0Universiti Sains MalaysiaPast studies on contractor internationalisation adopt a unimodelapproach. Taking up the call of a few scholars, a study isconducted, this time by integrating several extant models of fi rminternationalisation. Malaysian international contractors are usedto test this approach. Due to space limitation, this paper is focusedonly on locational factors. It begins by justifying the inclusion oflocational factors in a multi-model approach. Then it posits thatlocational disadvantage is a more intellectually appealing conceptthan locational advantages. Empirically, it shows that the surveyedcontractors evaluate a wide range of factors before making thego/no go decision to enter foreign markets. It also shows thatpsychic distance was not their major concern. Finally, the locationaldisadvantages create a market space for international contractorswith the tenacity to overcome them, which the sampled populationpossessed.https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/3012 |
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| title | Locational Factors and Foreign Market-entry Considerations for Malaysian Contractors |
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| title_fullStr | Locational Factors and Foreign Market-entry Considerations for Malaysian Contractors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Locational Factors and Foreign Market-entry Considerations for Malaysian Contractors |
| title_short | Locational Factors and Foreign Market-entry Considerations for Malaysian Contractors |
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