ISBN 1947-833X Proceedings of 1st Global Business Summit Conference (GBSC 2009), Kelantan, Malaysia University of Technology Mara Malaysia, Shah Alam, 15-17 June 2009, Volume 2, pp. 128-137
Entry Mode Strategies of Malaysian Service Firms: A Resource-Based Approach
Mohammadreza Asgari*, Mohd Nazari Ismail**, Syed Zamberi Ahmad*** Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
ABSTRACT The rapid progress in services has attracted scholars to study the behaviour and decisions of service firms. Firms from Malaysia, as a developing country, with a fast growing economy that increasingly relies on services have shown a remarkable expansion into foreign markets, which has resulted in high foreign direct investment
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Due to speedy globalization of economic activities, service firms succeeded in expanding their business into emerging markets (Ekeledo and Sivakumar, 1998). According to Blomstermo et al. (2006), rising attention is paid to research the internationalization process of service firms such as the hotel industry, tourism, retailing, insurance, banking and financial services. Trade in services, which comprised 20% of total international trade in 1980, increased to 23% in 2007 (UNCTAD, 2008). This is why the present research aims to focus on firms engaged in the service sector. To clarify the research topic and establish a basis to make hypotheses, this study intends to answer the following questions: Why do firms adopt different entry strategies to enter foreign markets? Do firm-specific resources and country-of-origin development affect the entry decision of firms? Is it possible for soft service firms to imitate the same strategies that hard service firms adopt? Does psychic distance play a vital role in the choice of entry mode? MALAYSIA’S ECONOMY AND THE ROLE OF SERVICE SECTOR Malaysia is a developing country with a GDP of US$214.7 billion in 2008 which considering its population of 25,274,133 indicates a GDP per capita of US$8,495 (comparing to China US$3,174; Thailand US$4,155; Indonesia US$2,150; and Singapore US$33,528). The service sector is an important part of Malaysia’s economy. In 2008, 45.7% of the GDP was yielded by services and 51% of the labour
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In 1977 Swedish researchers at Uppsala University came up with a model/theory how businesses should grow their activities in foreign market, this model explains that companies should select an entry mode by taking into consideration their own resources and exploring costs, and risks based on market nature. (Johanson and Vahnle, 2009) Researchers at Uppsala University in their empirical study found that Swedish firms mostly started their process of internationalization by exporting, initially companies had agents that represented them in foreign market, but these firms exported in countries that had little differentiation in culture, language and political systems from their home country, this was labeled in their model as physically close countries. Uppsala Model considers two types of knowledge objective and experience based knowledge, the model describes that after first entrance in foreign market businesses understands how to work in external country, and later they step by step increase level of internationalization to physically distant countries. (Johanson and Vahnle, 2009) But, can Uppsala model be applied to services? This model was mainly reliable for manufacturing industries; a paper with contrary arguments was published in 2008, providing two variables; environment-related and service specific, to question whether Uppsala model can be used for service
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