Influencing Export Barriers for Internationalization and Relationship Between Export Barriers and Information Systems Strategic Orientation on SMEs’ in Bangladesh: A Study on Ready- Made Garment (RMG)

Abstract

Almost in all countries, the important source of economic growth is small and medium enterprise constitutes. In the international business environment, SMEs’ face a number of barriers in the process of internationalization. This research study attempts to identify the most influencing internationalization export barriers and the relationship between information systems strategic orientation on perception of export barriers in SMEs. The mail survey and face to face conversation with structured questionnaire was conducted among the SME exporters of Dhaka city in Bangladesh on Ready Made garments industry.  The collected data from the valid 107 respondents were then analyzed using factor analysis and   Pearson Product-moment Correlation. The result obtained revealed a significant negative relationship between information systems strategic orientation on perception of export barriers in SMEs’. The empirical evidence from this study shows five are the identifying factors which are significantly influence the Internationalization of Export Barriers in Bangladesh on RMG.

Keywords: SME, Internationalization of SME, Internationalization export barriers, information systems strategic orientation.