Couper, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-7143-3458 (2019) Institutional bridging for SME high-distance internationalisation to China: a contextualised explanation. Management and Organization Review, 15 (2). pp. 307-340. ISSN 1740-8776
Abstract
This article offers a contextualised explanation of the process of institutional bridging by Delta, a British SME, in order to internationalise to China across high institutional distance. The study uncovers three novel mechanisms of ‘Cross-institutional Dissonance Mitigation’, ‘Multi-level Strategic Embedding’, and ‘Cross-institutional Consonance Retuning’ to explain how and why a failing SME with limited resources and networks was able to bridge the institutional distance and internationalise to the challenging Chinese market. This article contributes to the literature on SME internationalisation across high institutional distance by opening the ‘black box’ of SME institutional bridging, hence demonstrating the benefits of contextualised explanations to extend research into internationalisation phenomena that span multiple institutional boundaries.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The International Association for Chinese Management Research. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Management and Organization Review. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Contextualised explanation; institutional distance; institutional bridging; SME internationalisation; UK/China |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2019 14:57 |
Last Modified: | 29 May 2020 10:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/mor.2019.25 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:144620 |
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