- Title
- Internationalisation of Indonesian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): antecedents, processes, and organisational performance
- Creator
- Supriadi, Ono
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- This thesis empirically investigates the antecedents, processes, performance, and consequences of internationalisation of Indonesian SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) engaged in manufacturing and services. It also develops an integrated conceptual model that explains the rationale of SME internationalisation in Indonesia. It is proposed that there are significant and positive relationships between the following: internationalisation antecedents and internationalisation process; internationalisation antecedents and internationalisation performance; internationalisation process and internationalisation performance; and internationalisation performance and organisational performance of Indonesian SMEs. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is employed. In-depth interviews were conducted with 9 Indonesian experts and 14 Indonesian SME owners or managers using a semi-structured interview guide. Postal surveys were also done which resulted in 131 usable respondents’ answers. Both the in-depth interviews and postal surveys were conducted concurrently in five provinces of Indonesia: Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, and Bali. The qualitative data were analysed using NVivo 10 software, while the quantitative data were examined using statistical techniques, namely descriptive statistics, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and inferential (comparative and correlation) statistics of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 22 software. Applying the mixed methods follows the model developed by Steckler et al. (1992), and the qualitative results serve to help interpret and explain the quantitative findings. The findings indicate that of seven defining components of internationalisation antecedents - human capital, social capital, organisational characteristics, characteristics of domestic market, characteristics of foreign markets, market internationalisation, and industry - “market internationalisation” has the least observations (3.7% at the 5% and 10% significance levels) concerning significant and positive relationships with the internationalisation process, and “organisational characteristics” is found to have the most observations (44.44% at the 5% significance level and 55.55% at the 10% significance level) that has significant and positive relationships with internationalisation process. The variable “industry” has the least observations (4.54% at the 5% and 10% significance levels) concerning significant and positive relationships with internationalisation performance. Lastly, “organisational characteristics” is discovered to have the most observations (25% at the 5% significance level and 29.55% at the 10% significance level) regarding significant and positive relationships with internationalisation performance. Furthermore, the findings indicate that 18.18% (at the 5% significance level) and 22.22% (at the 10% significance level) observation of the defining components of internationalisation processes have significant and positive relationships with internationalisation performance. It is evident that 36.36% (at the 5% significance level) and 45.45% (at the 10% significance level) observation of the defining components of internationalisation performance do have significant and positive relationships with the Indonesian SMEs’ growth. Finally, 42.42% (at the 5% significance level) and 45.45% (at the 10% significance level) observation of the defining components of internationalisation performance are found to have significant and positive relationships with the Indonesian SMEs’ profitability. The originality of this thesis is embedded in at least four key aspects. First, the study has been conducted in Indonesia, a country in which SME internationalisation is not widely known or documented. Second, the relationships among three aspects of internationalisation of Indonesian SMEs - specifically the antecedents, processes and performance, and consequences integrated in a newly developed conceptual model for this research - have been analysed together at the same time. Third, the study has also developed a new approach for describing the strength of the relationship among the researched variables beyond the matters of hypothesis rejection or acceptance. Fourth, the study has applied the second model of mixed methods developed by Steckler et al. (1992) as mentioned above. The implications of the research findings not only for practitioners (especially managers and researchers), but also for policy-makers, are provided in the last chapter, Chapter Six, of this study.
- Subject
- internationalisation; Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs); antecedents; processes; organisational performance; Indonesia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312715
- Identifier
- uon:22453
- Rights
- Copyright 2016 Ono Supriadi
- Language
- eng
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