Peter is coming into the office this afternoon.
Now that the assignments are out of the way I guess it's time to pay a little more attention to this dissertation. I think I'm a ways down the road but who knows.
on the plus side - Have a reasonably good idea about what I'd like to explore - Social Capital and the Internationalising SME. I think that this provokes a number of other questions - types of social capital, the roles they play, sustainability, acocuntability their influence on the choice of foreign market entry and the mode that selected. I think this is the basis for a solid Lit. Review section. Coming out of that may be a framework that fixes Emerald's Social Capital along a particular set of dimensions relative to other SMEs. The hypothesis may be that Emerald's use of it's Social Capital will be more important in entering a market such as the UAE than it is for the US.
Subseqent Qual and Qant analysis will compare UK SME's entering UAE (n=4) in a comparative case-study methodology to provide/disprove this Hypothesis.
the tools and techniques used to evaluate Emerald's Social Capital networks in foreign market entry and mode choice may become useful artefacts in subsequent FME exercises.
That's, broadly speaking, the proposal I think.
I wonder if a more refined version of this would be acceptable as a proposal to the board for Feb 20th and the actual Research Proposal (March 9th)?
One for Peter I think.
