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An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27030 An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies Smorfitt, Rob ichelp@gibs.co.za Smit, Ettienne UCTD Entrepreneurship Start-ups Globalisation Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Most studies of multinational organisations (MNE’s) have been focused on large mature corporations. Traditional literature explains that firms internationalise after a certain level of domestic maturity and wield a significant amount of economic power to withstand the threat of international competition (Oviatt, McDougall, 1993, p. 29)However, this premise has changed in recent years with the adoption of new legislation and technologies that allow firms to become established MNE’s much sooner, with many of these pursuing rapid internationalisation strategies.If the traditional notions of staged theory no longer hold true and new behavioural aspects are driving small businesses to internationalise, it is essential for researchers to gain insights into new firm development, survival and growth in the South African context. Firm growth is of particular interest where globalised SME’s are concerned. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T09:53:53Z 2012-09-27 2013-09-07T09:53:53Z 2012-03-08 2012-09-27 2012-08-04 Dissertation Smit, E 2011, An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27030 > F/12/4/773/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27030 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08042012-202449/ © 2011 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Entrepreneurship Start-ups Globalisation An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies |
| title | An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies |
| title_full | An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies |
| title_fullStr | An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies |
| title_short | An assessment of growth potential of South African startups adopting early internationalisation strategies |
| title_sort | assessment of growth potential of south african startups adopting early internationalisation strategies |
| topic | UCTD Entrepreneurship Start-ups Globalisation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27030 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08042012-202449/ |