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Home Country Institutional Agents (HCIAs) as Boundary Spanners Supporting SME Internationalization

verfasst von : Valerie Lindsay, Michel Rod, Nicholas Ashill

Erschienen in: Advances in Global Marketing

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Home country institutions (HCIs) can play a role in supporting the internationalization efforts of SMEs, although little is known about how such support comes about. Our study addresses this question, specifically with regard to post-entry development of SMEs. We examine the process by which HCIs provide support, notably through the activities of home country institutional agents (HCIAs), drawing on the concepts of boundary-spanning and brokerage to conceptualize this process. Utilizing interview data from New Zealand SMEs internationalizing into India and China, we examine how institutional support is provided by the HCIAs identified and highlight associated outcomes arising for these firms. As a further contribution, we show differences between home country based, and host country based HCIAs in regard to these elements. The study notes a number of research implications relating to SME internationalization and institutional support, as well as insights for policy-makers and SME managers.

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Titel: Home Country Institutional Agents (HCIAs) as Boundary Spanners Supporting SME Internationalization
verfasst von: Valerie Lindsay
Michel Rod
Nicholas Ashill
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Advances in Global Marketing
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-61384-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-61385-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61385-7_5