Learning by bumping: pathways of Dutch SMEs to foreign direct investment in Asia
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- Michiel van Meeteren (UGent)
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- This paper investigates how eleven Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) transnationalised with East and Southeast Asian economies by means of establishing a foreign subsidiary. The study’s aim is to elucidate how firms learned to become a transnational corpora- tion and to gauge the relevance of the firm’s external networks in the acquisition of the appro- priate knowledge. The paper conceptualises SME transnationalisation as an organisational process that can be understood by theories developed in innovation studies. Through qualitative research on transnationalisation pathways, inferences are drawn on the skills and routines that are necessary to bridge institutional differences and the process by which these skills are acquired and routinised within the firm.
- Keywords
- organisational innovation, ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY, embeddedness, foreign direct investment, critical incident technique, SMEs, Transnational entrepreneurship, INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESS, MULTINATIONAL-CORPORATION, ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRMS, KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT, MARKET ENTRY, NETWORKS, INNOVATION, EMBEDDEDNESS, DYNAMICS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5754973
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- van Meeteren, Michiel. “Learning by Bumping: Pathways of Dutch SMEs to Foreign Direct Investment in Asia.” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE, vol. 106, no. 4, 2015, pp. 471–85, doi:10.1111/tesg.12121.
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- van Meeteren, M. (2015). Learning by bumping: pathways of Dutch SMEs to foreign direct investment in Asia. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE, 106(4), 471–485. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12121
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- Meeteren, Michiel van. 2015. “Learning by Bumping: Pathways of Dutch SMEs to Foreign Direct Investment in Asia.” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE 106 (4): 471–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12121.
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- van Meeteren, Michiel. 2015. “Learning by Bumping: Pathways of Dutch SMEs to Foreign Direct Investment in Asia.” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE 106 (4): 471–485. doi:10.1111/tesg.12121.
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- 1.van Meeteren M. Learning by bumping: pathways of Dutch SMEs to foreign direct investment in Asia. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE. 2015;106(4):471–85.
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- [1]M. van Meeteren, “Learning by bumping: pathways of Dutch SMEs to foreign direct investment in Asia,” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE, vol. 106, no. 4, pp. 471–485, 2015.
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