Exploring the Emerging Economy Context: SMEs and Social Capital in Brazil

Event Location / Date(s)

2013 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business/Istanbul, Turkey

Event Name / Location

Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business "Bridging the Divide: Linking IB to Complementary Disciplines and Practice"

Presentation Date

7-3-2013

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Presenter(s) / Author(s)

Ruth Clarke, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Ramdas Chandra, Nova Southeastern University
Marcilio Machado, Fucape - Fundação Capixaba de Pesquisa

Description

This exploratory, empirical study reports on social capital in a commodity-based industry in an emerging market context. We examine whether Brazilian entrepreneurs and SMEs in the Stone industry experience contextual normative pressure sufficient to retard or promote the growth of social capital. Further we link social capital development to internationalization and performance. We find that there is a lack of social capital development and propose that this is related to the country context of Brazil and the stage of development along the industry value chain. We begin to answer the question, essentially, are the benefits of social capital universally implementable or does societal context for social capital retard usage? We suggest propositions for future study.

First Page

185

Last Page

185

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NSUWorks Citation

Clarke, Ruth; Chandra, Ramdas; and Machado, Marcilio, "Exploring the Emerging Economy Context: SMEs and Social Capital in Brazil" (2013). HCBE Faculty Presentations. 593.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facpres/593