- Title
- Internationalisation pathways of small Singaporean family firms: a socio-cultural perspective
- Creator
- Mustafa, Michael; Ramos, Hazel Melanie; Chen, Stephen
- Relation
- International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business Vol. 5, Issue 4, p. 290-311
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGSB.2013.056903
- Publisher
- Inderscience Enterprises
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- There is increasing recognition that the internationalisation of family-firms is becoming an important area of research. Despite the growth of this research area, studies of the internationalisation of family-firms remains limited. Current research in the area has tended to focus on family-firms in largely Western contexts and the economic and familial factors behind their internationalisation. Furthermore, little is known about the internationalisation pathways of family-firms in differing institutional context and the socio-cultural factors that facilitate the features which lie behind it. This study aims to make a start in researching this gap in our understanding. We do this by looking at four case studies of family-firms from Singapore. Based on our findings, we classified firms into one of three internationalisation pathways – traditional, born global and born again global – and we highlight some important differences between the socio-cultural factors that facilitate their internationalisation pathways.
- Subject
- family firms; internationalisation; socio-cultural; pathways; Singapore
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1391206
- Identifier
- uon:33186
- Identifier
- ISSN:1479-3059
- Language
- eng
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