‘We need to play safe’: SME internationalization in a munificent environment
研究了资源丰裕而非稀缺环境下中小企业如何国际化，基于卡塔尔六家企业的证据，发现它们因担心风险而采取“受约束的国际化”路径。
In response to the calls for better understanding of the impact of the non-Western business environment on business, this article explains how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) respond to resource-abundant rather than the more usually studied resource-constrained conditions. The evidence from six SMEs in Qatar exposes the role of a munificent environment in enabling SMEs’ early and proactive internationalization. We also explain that SMEs in this munificent national context follow ‘constrained internationalization’ trajectories because of concerns over risk and the potential of jeopardising and losing the benefits drawn from the home country incentives. The work contributes to the current understanding of the role of context in SME internationalization and outlines implications for management practice.