TY  - CHAP
AB  - Existing research in firm internationalization tends to adopt the perspective of relatively fixed country specific advantages and disadvantages. However, firms operating from small developing countries may experience rapidly shifting country-specific advantages due to industrial policy interventions. These changes influence the internal configuration and, ultimately, the internationalization paths of firms, a factor that is not captured by current theory. Using a combination of a country case study and nested multiple firm cases, data were collected on how organizations internationalized from Trinidad and Tobago, a small developing country. Unlike the relatively deterministic outward patterns predicted by existing theories, analysis revealed both evolutionary and co-evolutionary trajectories of development. These outcomes suggest that as a country moves to more open economic environment, network connections in the form of supplier and institutional relationships are of increased value for firms seeking to enter external markets.
VL  - 24
SN  - 978-0-85724-991-3, 978-0-85724-992-0/1571-5027
DO  - 10.1108/S1571-5027(2011)0000024018
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-5027(2011)0000024018
AU  - Williams Nigel L.
AU  - Ridgman Tom
AU  - Shi Yongjiang S.
ED  - Christian Geisler Asmussen
ED  - Torben Pedersen
ED  - Timothy M. Devinney
ED  - Laszlo Tihanyi
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - From Stages to Phases, A Theory of Small Developing Country Internationalization
T2  - Dynamics of Globalization: Location-Specific Advantages or Liabilities of Foreignness?
T3  - Advances in International Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 271
EP  - 298
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -