ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the incipiency of the 'global mind-set' as a construct in international management among smaller manufacturing enterprises (SMEs). It attempts to formulate a conceptual model for research that could potentially lead to the detection of managerial activities that evolve as incipient global mindsets. The initial managerial activities among early stages of SMEs' exporting operations provide a unique opportunity to introduce a suitable platform for detecting and defining a global mindset as an operational construct in international management. The emergence of global mindset as a construct in international management literature is originally attributed to Perlmutter in his discussion of the evolution of multinational corporations. Global mindset as a research construct from the beginning was difficult to define and use in scientifically based research studies. For the global mindset construct to be defined and scientifically tested, an empirically based scientific foundation with a conceptual framework is needed.
