1. Platform-Based Internationalization of Smaller Firms: The Role of Government Policy.
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Singh, Nitish, Munjal, Surender, Kundu, Sumit, and Rangarajan, K.
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GOVERNMENT policy ,SMALL business ,GLOBALIZATION - Abstract
Governments are recognizing anticompetitive concerns and market distortions associated with the rise of e-commerce platforms. Thus, policies are being crafted to level the playing field between large platform operators and small platform sellers. In addition, policies mitigating barriers to internationalization associated with using e-commerce platforms are also being developed. This study aims to explore these policy actions impacting the platform-based internationalization of small and micro enterprises (SMEs). The case study method is adopted to provide rich insights into the Indian Government policy actions impacting the e-commerce platform-based internationalization of Indian SMEs. More specifically, this investigation analyzes the extent to which the Indian Government policy actions have mitigated the home market and industry-level barriers to export for SMEs leveraging e-commerce platforms for their internationalization efforts. Study findings provide rich policy implications and fodder for future empirical testing of key qualitative insights uncovered in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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