Diaspora International Entrepreneurship: Evidence From the Indian IT Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumati Varma ◽  
Mukesh Bagoria
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Home Country ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Domestic Firms ◽  
Entrepreneurial Opportunities ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Learning

This paper examines the role of the diaspora as a driver of international entrepreneurship in the home country context, from the perspective of the Indian IT industry. It identifies diaspora links as sources of knowledge, learning and reputation, that drives domestic firms on the path of accelerated internationalisation. It uses inductive methodology to develop an eclectic framework using insights from diverse streams of international business, entrepreneurship and the literature on diaspora. It focuses on the discovery, evaluation and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities in the context of the Indian IT sector with lessons that can be replicated elsewhere.

scholarly journals DOES BOARD USAGE OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS AFFECT INTERNATIONALIZATION PERFORMANCE OF SMES? A CASE OF LITHUANIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Monika Bužavaitė ◽  
Renata Korsakienė
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
International Business ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Critical Determinant ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
Research Gap

Internationalization of SMEs is encouraged by the advantages of new environmental conditions and appealing business opportunities, but remains a challenging process. Top management teams and more specifically board of directors appear to be a critical determinant in addressing internationalization issues. In recent years, investigation of boards in small firms’ context has been an interest of scholars, however few investigated characteristics of human capital. This study aims to investigate whether board usage of knowledge and skills is a mediator linking characteristics of human capital of board and internationalization performance of SMEs in Lithuania. The results revealed that usage of knowledge and skills mediates the relationships between international business skills and internationalization performance. Obtained results contribute to international entrepreneurship and upper-echelons theories by highlighting the role of the board in SMEs and linking it to higher internationalization performance through their usage of knowledge and skills. This study fills the research gap and extends the extant studies in internationalization of SMEs. First, the study responds to the need to investigate how board’s capital affect internationalization. Secondly, the study responds to the need to go beyond input-output models.

Export Incentives and International Entrepreneurship in Malaysian Firms

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafar U. Ahmed ◽  
Craig C. Julian ◽  
Abdul Jumaat Majar
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
International Business ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Foreign Competitors

This study explores Malaysian entrepreneurs' incentives to export when engaging in international business. The data gathered were based on a survey of 214 Malaysian manufacturing firms. Statistical analysis was carried out using one-way analysis of variance. With the exception of a ‘decline in the value of currency relative to foreign markets’, the results indicate no significant differences in the perceptions of exporters and non-exporters towards the various incentives to export. Thirteen of the export incentives tested in this study were deemed to be significant to Malaysian entrepreneurs. These were: reduction of tariffs in target countries; attractive export incentives provided by the home country government; the presence of export-minded management; expectation of economies of scale resulting from added volume of trade; favourable sales and profit opportunities in foreign markets; chance to diversify into new markets; receipt of voluntary orders from foreign buyers; availability of profitable ways to ship to foreign markets; eased product regulations in target countries; opportunity to reduce inventories; moves by domestic competitors to export; decline in the value of currency relative to foreign markets; and entry of foreign competitors into the domestic market.

A literature review on firms' internationalisation through e-commerce

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Riccardo Resciniti ◽  
Federica De Vanna
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
International Business ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

The rise of e-commerce has brought considerable changes to the relationship between firms and consumers, especially within international business. Hence, understanding the use of such means for entering foreign markets has become critical for companies. However, the research on this issue is new and so it is important to evaluate what has been studied in the past. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of e-commerce and internationalisation studies to explicate how firms use e-commerce to enter new markets and to export. The studies are classified by theories and methods used in the literature. Moreover, we draw upon the internationalisation decision process (antecedents-modalities-consequences) to propose an integrative framework for understanding the role of e-commerce in internationalisation

THE ROLE OF PRODUCT ETHNICITY IN HOME COUNTRY BIAS

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mathias Fischer ◽  
◽  
Katharina P. Zeugner-Roth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Home Country

Employees’ Motivation for Creating International Business Venture: The Role of Perceived Competence and Job Satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh D. Pham ◽  
Men T. Bui ◽  
Dung P. Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
International Business ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Network Building ◽  
Perceived Desirability

This research investigates the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese employees, a crucial segment of potential entrepreneurs yet mostly neglected in previous studies. Given the focus on intention to create an international business venture and the working segment, we expand the entrepreneurial event theory by supplementing perceived competence and job satisfaction as determinants of entrepreneurial intention while testing the mediation of perceived feasibility and perceived desirability in such relationships correspondingly. Three focus groups on 27 Vietnamese employees were conducted to explore the specific relevant competences and develop the conceptual model. Afterwards, data from an empirical survey on 567 Vietnamese employees was analysed using a partial least squares structural equation model to test the hypothesised relationships. The empirical results indicate that perceived competences, viz. administrative competence, communication skills, network building competence, and international business expertise have a positive impact on entrepreneurial intention. The relationships between either administrative competence, network building capacity or international business expertise, and entrepreneurial intention are totally mediated by perceived feasibility. The study also reveals a noteworthy finding about the negative direct effect of overall job satisfaction on entrepreneurial intention and the partial mediating role of perceived desirability in this relationship.

scholarly journals IPR Law Protection and Enforcement and the Effect on Horizontal Productivity Spillovers from Inward FDI to Domestic Firms: A Meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danai Christopoulou ◽  
Nikolaos Papageorgiadis ◽  
Chengang Wang ◽  
Georgios Magkonis
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Productivity Spillovers ◽  
Domestic Firms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

AbstractWe study the role of the strength of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) law protection and enforcement in influencing horizontal productivity spillovers from inward FDI to domestic firms in host countries. While most WTO countries adopted strong IPR legislation due to exogenous pressure resulting from the signing of the Trade-Related Aspects of IPR (TRIPS) agreement, public IPR enforcement strength continues to vary significantly between countries. We meta-analyse 49 studies and find that public IPR enforcement strength has a direct positive effect on horizontal productivity spillovers from inward FDI to domestic firms and a negative moderating effect on the relationship between IPR law protection strength and horizontal productivity spillovers from inward FDI to domestic firms.

Family and non-family sources of knowledge diversity in family firms: The role of causation logics

2020 ◽  
pp. 026624262095335
Author(s):  
Robert V Randolph ◽  
Hanqing ‘Chevy’ Fang ◽  
Esra Memili ◽  
Dilek Zamantili Nayir
Keyword(s):  
Family Firms ◽  
Knowledge Capital ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Knowledge Diversity ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Formal Causation ◽  
Intra Family ◽  
Empirical Analyses

This article will critically analyse the sources and the role of knowledge diversity in informing causation logics in family firms. Family firms rely on knowledge resources from both intra-family and extra-family sources, which may require different approaches to effectively manage. We argue that as family firms acquire greater knowledge diversity, family-centred effectuation processes become limited and they will increasingly rely on formal causation logics to coordinate these resources. However, we expect this relationship to differ when knowledge diversity is sourced from either family or non-family sources. Empirical analyses of 242 small- and medium-sized family firms indicate that knowledge diversity positively affects a firm’s reliance on causation logics, regardless of the source of that diversity. This suggests that the affinity of family firms to leverage effectuation logics may not be characteristic of family firms in general, but instead may be an artefact of firm reliance on knowledge capital concentrated in family owners.

scholarly journals Welfare optimization and multinational monopolies

1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
A. M. Russell ◽  
C. A. Martini ◽  
J. A. Rickard
Keyword(s):  
Parameter Space ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Consumption Tax ◽  
Optimal Value ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Consumption Taxes

AbstractThis paper examines the role of import tariffs and consumption taxes when a product is supplied to a domestic market by a foreign monopoly via a subsidiary. It is assumed that there is no competition in the domestic market from internal suppliers. The home country is able to levy a profits tax on the subsidiary. The objective of our analysis is to determine the mix of tariff and consumption tax which simultaneously maximizes national welfare. We show that national welfare does not have an internal maximum, but attains its maximum on a boundary of the consumption tax–tariff parameter space. Furthermore, the optimal value of national welfare increases as the tariff decreases and the consumption tax increases. The results obtained generalize the results of an earlier paper in which national welfare was maximized with respect to either a tariff or consumption tax, but not both.

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