The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs
This paper presents the descriptive analysis of a study on internationalisation among Malaysian SMEs.The objective is to highlight the number of firms that do involve in international market, reason for internationalisation and their mode of entry into foreign market.For SMEs that do not internation...
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| author | Nik Abdullah, Nik Ab. Halim Mohd Zain, Shahrul Nizam |
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| description | This paper presents the descriptive analysis of a study on internationalisation among Malaysian SMEs.The objective is to highlight the number of firms that do involve in international market, reason for internationalisation and their mode of entry into foreign market.For SMEs that do not internationalise, the concern is more towards the reason why they did not.Discussions are based on the related theories of internationalisation namely the Uppsala Model, Network Approach and International New Venture or Born global.Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire and a total of 250 responds were received. Findings indicate that exporting was the most used mode of entry and increasing profit was the main reason for internationalisation.Various internationalisation processes were adopted but the step-by-step and cautious approach seems to be the most popular.Potential difficulties and uncertainties in making profit appear to be the major reason for SMEs that did not internationalise.Crosstab analysis has been conducted to look at the characteristics of SMEs that internationalise.Discussions of the findings, significance of the study and direction for future research are then discussed. |
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| spelling | uum-73852016-04-24T06:53:29Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/7385/ The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs Nik Abdullah, Nik Ab. Halim Mohd Zain, Shahrul Nizam HD28 Management. Industrial Management This paper presents the descriptive analysis of a study on internationalisation among Malaysian SMEs.The objective is to highlight the number of firms that do involve in international market, reason for internationalisation and their mode of entry into foreign market.For SMEs that do not internationalise, the concern is more towards the reason why they did not.Discussions are based on the related theories of internationalisation namely the Uppsala Model, Network Approach and International New Venture or Born global.Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire and a total of 250 responds were received. Findings indicate that exporting was the most used mode of entry and increasing profit was the main reason for internationalisation.Various internationalisation processes were adopted but the step-by-step and cautious approach seems to be the most popular.Potential difficulties and uncertainties in making profit appear to be the major reason for SMEs that did not internationalise.Crosstab analysis has been conducted to look at the characteristics of SMEs that internationalise.Discussions of the findings, significance of the study and direction for future research are then discussed. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/7385/1/33-S00024.pdf Nik Abdullah, Nik Ab. Halim and Mohd Zain, Shahrul Nizam (2011) The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs. In: 2011 International Conference on Sociality and Economics Development, 4th - 5th June 2011 , Kuala Lumpur. http://www.ipedr.com/vol10.htm |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Nik Abdullah, Nik Ab. Halim Mohd Zain, Shahrul Nizam The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs |
| title | The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs |
| title_full | The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs |
| title_fullStr | The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs |
| title_full_unstemmed | The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs |
| title_short | The internationalisation of Malaysian SMEs |
| title_sort | internationalisation of malaysian smes |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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