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Managers and digital transformation in small internationalisers

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posted on 2022-07-15, 13:19 authored by Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji
This paper is set to explore the role of individual-level behaviours and actions in the digital transformation of international SMEs. This is particularly important since little is known regarding the extent to which entrepreneurs and decision-makers manage the digitalisation process. Thus, building on the theory of planned behaviour, this research focuses on individual-level micro-foundations in the digital transformation of small internationalisers. The paper benefits from a mixed-method synthesis. First, through a systematic review of literature, we identified a total number of twenty-seven factors in four inclusive micro-foundation categories such as technology management capacities, knowledge management capabilities, entrepreneurial and innovation capabilities and leadership and management capabilities. Then, the list of factors has been narrowed down to the top seven individual-level micro-foundations, using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Delphi. Subsequently, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory analysis is applied to disentangle the causality and effectuality as well as conceptual framework to depict their interrelationships

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School of Business, University of Leicester

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48th AIB UK & Ireland Conference organised jointly with 8th Reading IB Conference, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK, Contemporary Issues in International Business:, Inequality, Geography and GVCs, 8-9 April 2022

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AIB UK&I / Reading IB 2022 Conference

Acceptance date

2022-02-28

Copyright date

2022

Available date

2022-07-15

Spatial coverage

Reading UK

Temporal coverage: start date

2022-04-06

Temporal coverage: end date

2022-07-09

Language

en

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