Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization strategies among Malaysian SMEs
A challenging business environment nowadays made small business especially SMEs think twice before planning to initiate international business. With lacking of knowledge and experience in handling international market activities, makes most SMEs faced difficulties starts from home country obstacle...
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| author | Azman, Noor Azura Mohamad, Osman Ahmad, Noor Hazlina |
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| description | A challenging business environment nowadays made small business especially SMEs think twice before planning to initiate international business. With
lacking of knowledge and experience in handling international market activities, makes most SMEs faced difficulties starts from home country
obstacles as well as host country. This study tends to understand the consequences of home country institutional pressure on internationalization strategy. In this research, purposive sampling was used in selecting 860 SMEs
as the sample from the registered list of companies in the Federation of Manufacturing Companies (FMM) directory, which is the most comprehensive list of SMEs database. The Partial Least Square (PLS-SEM) was used as the statistical tool to measure the significance relationship between construct. The major findings were proven the significance of the relationship and confirmed
the importance of understanding the home country institutional pressures and internationalization strategy choices. |
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| spelling | uum-268232020-02-24T00:20:30Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/26823/ Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization strategies among Malaysian SMEs Azman, Noor Azura Mohamad, Osman Ahmad, Noor Hazlina HD28 Management. Industrial Management A challenging business environment nowadays made small business especially SMEs think twice before planning to initiate international business. With lacking of knowledge and experience in handling international market activities, makes most SMEs faced difficulties starts from home country obstacles as well as host country. This study tends to understand the consequences of home country institutional pressure on internationalization strategy. In this research, purposive sampling was used in selecting 860 SMEs as the sample from the registered list of companies in the Federation of Manufacturing Companies (FMM) directory, which is the most comprehensive list of SMEs database. The Partial Least Square (PLS-SEM) was used as the statistical tool to measure the significance relationship between construct. The major findings were proven the significance of the relationship and confirmed the importance of understanding the home country institutional pressures and internationalization strategy choices. 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/26823/1/JARBMSCM%202%201%202018%201%208.pdf Azman, Noor Azura and Mohamad, Osman and Ahmad, Noor Hazlina (2018) Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization strategies among Malaysian SMEs. The Journal of Advanced Research in Business, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management (JARIMS), 2 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 2600-8327 https://jarims.aibma.org/2018/sbpv20108 |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Azman, Noor Azura Mohamad, Osman Ahmad, Noor Hazlina Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization strategies among Malaysian SMEs |
| title | Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization
strategies among Malaysian SMEs |
| title_full | Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization
strategies among Malaysian SMEs |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization
strategies among Malaysian SMEs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization
strategies among Malaysian SMEs |
| title_short | Understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization
strategies among Malaysian SMEs |
| title_sort | understanding the effect of home country institutional pressures towards internationalization strategies among malaysian smes |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/26823/1/JARBMSCM%202%201%202018%201%208.pdf |
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