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Bika, Zografia 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2970-2941 and Kalantaridis, Christos
(2019)
Organizational-social-capital, time and international family SMEs: An empirical study from the East of England.
European Management Review, 16 (3).
pp. 525-541.
ISSN 1740-4754
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Abstract
Previous studies on family-SME internationalization have largely focused on what resources are needed to drive an incremental process rather than how resource management occurs in historical time. This paper focuses on the latter, adopting a social capital perspective (capturing both internal, i.e. among family-SME board members, and external, cross border agent dyads, relations) in order to decipher case study data from the East of England. Findings show that it is not the presence or absence of organizational-social-capital that affects family-SME internationalization success but rather its variable use over the years driven by the future pursuit of longevity, not growth. Key within this context is the variable use of the international expertise and management capability of non-family managers in the family SME intra-organizational context. Ultimately this may lead to change and learning that occurs erratically, often including reversals, without causing family-SME progression across a sequence of incremental stages.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | family business,internationalization,social capital,history,sme |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Strategy and Entrepreneurship Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Marketing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2017 16:23 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2023 13:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65792 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/emre.12160 |
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