Small Firm Boundary-spanning via Bridging Ties: Achieving International Connectivity via Cross-border Inter-cluster Alliances
| Autor: | Anthony Goerzen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Entrepreneurship
Bridging (networking) ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Boundary spanning Interpersonal communication Internationalization Phenomenon 0502 economics and business Cluster (physics) 050211 marketing Business cluster Business Business and International Management Marketing 050203 business & management Finance Industrial organization |
| Zdroj: | Journal of International Management. 24:153-164 |
| ISSN: | 1075-4253 |
| Popis: | The notion of “people and pipelines” (i.e., interpersonal and intraorganizational networks) is a parsimonious description of the paths by which firms typically engage in boundary-spanning to develop opportunities to innovate and internationalize. Yet, we know little about how requisite connectivity develops for smaller, resource-poor firms whose access to people and pipelines is limited. I propose that small firms, who are members of industry clusters, are able to span their boundaries through bridging ties to people and pipelines via cross-border intercluster alliances. With case-based illustrations derived from cluster managers and small firms within those clusters, this research is intended to extend our understanding of bridging ties as a form of global market boundary-spanning by exploring this emerging phenomenon in the context of resource-poor, entrepreneurial firms who have no alternative, if they are to innovate and internationalize, but to do so on a shoestring budget. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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