Open AccessEXPLORING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT AND NATIONAL CULTURE IMPACT ON INTERNATIONALIZATION READINESS OF SMES
Author(s) -
Herwina Rosnan,
Nuraisyah Chua Abdullah
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
management and accounting review/management and accounting review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2600-7975
pISSN - 2550-1895
DOI - 10.24191/mar.v17i1.760
Subject(s) - internationalization , sample (material) , politics , business , generalization , partial least squares regression , small and medium sized enterprises , marketing , industrial organization , statistics , political science , mathematics , international trade , law , mathematical analysis , chemistry , finance , chromatography
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of Political Environment and National Culture on Internationalization Readiness. The Smart-Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis was used as to investigate the research model based on the survey of 60 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from various industries which include companies in pharmaceutical, technological, electronic and foods and beverages in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The results supported the effects of two exogenous variables toward endogenous variable (Internationalization Readiness). Since the samples were limited to some SME companies in Klang Valley, Malaysia, the results of this study can only achieve theoretical generalization. Statistically, this study may prove not to be generalizable to the sample and should be confirmed using larger samples.