Organizational-Social-Capital, Time and International Family SMEs: An Empirical Study from the East of England
Organizational-Social-Capital, Time and International Family SMEs: An Empirical Study from the East of England
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DOI：
10.1111/emre.12160
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Kalantaridis, Christos
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作者：
Bika, Zografia;Kalantaridis, Christos
以往关于家族中小企业国际化的研究主要集中在需要哪些资源来推动增量过程，而不是资源管理在历史时间中是如何发生的。本文重点关注后者，采用社会资本视角（捕捉内部，即家族-中小企业董事会成员之间的关系，以及外部，跨境代理二元关系），以解读来自英格兰东部的案例研究数据。研究结果表明，影响家族中小企业国际化成功的不是组织社会资本的存在与否，而是组织社会资本在未来追求长寿而非增长的情况下的多年可变使用。在这方面的关键是在家族中小企业组织内部情况下，对非家族管理人员的国际专门知识和管理能力的可变使用。最终，这可能导致不规律的变化和学习，通常包括逆转，而不会导致家庭-中小企业在一系列增量阶段的进展。
Previous studies on family-SME internationalization have largely focused on what resources are needed to drive an incremental process rather than how resource management occurs in historical time. This paper focuses on the latter, adopting a social capital perspective (capturing both internal, i.e. among family-SME board members, and external, cross border agent dyads, relations) in order to decipher case study data from the East of England. Findings show that it is not the presence or absence of organizational-social-capital that affects family-SME internationalization success but rather its variable use over the years driven by the future pursuit of longevity, not growth. Key within this context is the variable use of the international expertise and management capability of non-family managers in the family SME intra-organizational context. Ultimately this may lead to change and learning that occurs erratically, often including reversals, without causing family-SME progression across a sequence of incremental stages.