 Internationalisation pathways of small Singaporean family firms: a socio-cultural perspectiveMichael Mustafa, Hazel Melanie Ramos and Stephen Chen International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 2013, vol. 5, issue 4, 290-311 Abstract: 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. Keywords: family firms; internationalisation pathways; socio-cultural perspective; Singapore; family businesses; traditional firms; born globals; born again globals. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:5:y:2013:i:4:p:290-311 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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