Industrial network membership: Reducing psychic distance hazards in the internationalization of the firm

João Carvalho Santos (), Manuel Ferreira (), Nuno Reis () and Sandra Raquel Alves ()
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João Carvalho Santos: Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
Sandra Raquel Alves: Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

No 71, Working Papers from globADVANTAGE, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

Abstract: The network approach to internationalization of the firms has warranted the research focus of many international business scholars. Firms are increasingly involved in international business endeavors and arguably need to learn to adapt to idiosyncratic milieus they encounter in the foreign markets. This paper proposes a conceptual model suggesting that integration in networks strengthens corporate competitiveness in international markets. Network membership provides access to knowledge that facilitates adaptation to the various dimensions - economic, political, legal, cultural ? of the international business environments. Membership in social and business networks are likely to ease internationalization by reducing firms? perceived psychic distance.

Keywords: Networks; internationalization theories; psychic distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M0 M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-02-27
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