International strategy and performance – clustering strategic types of SMEs

Hagen, Birgit

doi:10.1108/sd.2012.05628haa.007

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“…Para finalizar, señalar la principal limitación de este trabajo como es considerar exclusivamente la influencia de los valores en los resultados empresariales, obviando otros aspectos sobre los que la literatura apunta una repercusión más directa como son las orientaciones directivas (Escandon, Vargas, & González-Campo, 2013), decisiones estratégicas (Hagen, Zucchella, Cerchiello, & Giovanni, 2012) y alianzas estratégicas (Nakos, Brouthers, & Dimitratos, 2014). Actuando estos factores, en ocasiones, como mediadores o moderadores de la relación valores-resultados empresariales.…”

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¿influye La Personalidad De Los Directivos De Pymes en Los Resultados Exportadores?

2016

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RESUMEN En este trabajo se analiza si los valores según la escala de Schwartz varían entre los directivos responsables de exportación de Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PyMEs) entre las empresas con mayor éxito exportador, frente a las que tienen un éxito exportador limitado. El estudio se aplica a una muestra de 196 PyMEs españolas exportadoras. En primer lugar se aplica un clúster de clases latentes para clasificar las empresas en función del performance exportador, para después aplicar test de comparaciones de medias y buscar diferencias significativas en los valores de Schwartz entre directivos de empresas de ambos grupos. Los valores en los que aparecen diferencias significativas son: honestidad, influencia, ambición, lealtad, justicia social, autoridad, vida excitante y orden social.

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¿influye La Personalidad De Los Directivos De Pymes en Los Resultados Exportadores?

2016

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“…Instead of the researcher's intuition, a statistical analysis delivered the groups of keywords' families by a hierarchical cluster analysis of cases. It allowed for the discovery of keywords, in a similar vein as Hagen et al (2012) did to identify strategic types of international SMEs. The method is supported as adequate for conducting content analyses in other disciplines (Kishida, 2003).…”

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Global organizations and supply chain

González‐Loureiro

Dabić

Puig

2014

International Journal of Physical Distribution &Amp; Logistics Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to aim at proposing a research agenda in the intersection of strategic supply chain management and logistics (SCML) of global organizations from the perspective of international human resource management (IHRM). Design/methodology/approach – To disclose the intellectual structure of research to date across both fields, the content of up to 280 articles dealing with IHRM and 174 papers addressing challenges in SCML in global organizations from a human resource management (HRM) viewpoint were analyzed. A stepwise hierarchical cluster and discriminant analysis were conducted to map a joint research agenda. Approaches from Upper Echelons theory and Co-Evolutionary theory of global organizations were adopted. Findings – Top management teams (TMT) are crucial to manage SCML successfully in today’s global organizations. Research on this intersection should draw attention to find antecedents, consequences and the process showing how those talented people grouped in dispersed teams can be a source of competitive advantage. Six different areas of research are proposed. It is proposed that future research should focus on the human capital (HC); meaning those key individuals of an organization that make things happen. In the near future, the global organization’s competitiveness will be shaped by how the organization manages its HC in SCML. Methodologies such as meta-analysis are suggested to summarize the extant literature on IHRM when applied to SCML in global organizations. Research limitations/implications – The search was conducted in SSCI-ISIWoK and Scopus databases. As a limitation, some articles and other scientific contributions not abstracted there were not included. Nevertheless, both searches enabled obtaining balanced results between scope and richness of content. Originality/value – Only a marginal portion of literature reviews have been conducted by using mixed methods in the fields of IHRM and SCML. The results will be useful for scholars of both fields in their attempts to enlarge the knowledge boundaries in these areas. From a practitioner’s viewpoint, this research may provide an integrative framework for global organizations to build a competitive advantage based on managing HC and its SCML strategically.

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“…The cluster analysis method is one of the commonly-used methods for identifying patterns (Halkidi et al, 2001) and the development of segments and clusters in business studies (Hagen et al, 2012;Zahra and Covin, 1993). Thus, this study uses cluster analysis for pattern identification.…”

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Contextualization of Evolving Patterns in the Internationalization of Small Firms

2015

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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The internationalization of SMEs has been recognized as one of the important paths to growth in SMEs. However, internationalization is also a resource and competence-demanding process. This is especially true for smaller-sized SMEs – the small and micro-sized firms – which have a large resource constraint, making internationalization even more challenging. Although this group of small firms counts for an average of over 98% of the total population of enterprises in EU countries, extant research on the internationalization of this group is still limited. Therefore, the main purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to a better understanding of evolving patterns of internationalization in the smaller-sized SMEs. The study uses emerging market entry along the internationalization of small firms as a context to probe the dynamics of perceived risk (uncertainty) and perceived opportunity in different foreign markets which influence the important decisions of small firms during their internationalization. The main study takes a longitudinal approach and uses mixed methods to investigate the features in both the initial period and the continued period of internationalization. It mainly builds on a multiple-case study of 12 Swedish firms, which have/had emerging market entry experience and/or involvement. This study illustrates influences from the environmental, organizational and individual levels on evolving patterns of internationalization in the investigated firms. This dissertation concludes that critical decisions and actions taken in the internationalization process depend on interactions among the influence and resources from the three levels. Such interactions form a conditional preference on perceived risk (uncertainty) and perceived opportunity during the internationalization of small firms. The study further proposes that the dynamics in the internationalization process are caused by a prospect-guided change mechanism. This dissertation contributes to the literature by: differentiating patterns of internationalization; enriching the study of “born global” in the continued period of internationalization; introducing a new perspective on the interpretation of dynamics in the internationalization; and increasing the understanding on the interactions of resources from three levels on the internationalization of small firms

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International strategy and performance – clustering strategic types of SMEs

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¿influye La Personalidad De Los Directivos De Pymes en Los Resultados Exportadores?

¿influye La Personalidad De Los Directivos De Pymes en Los Resultados Exportadores?

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