Internationalization stages of traditional SMEs: Increasing, decreasing and re-increasing commitment to foreign markets

Dominguez, Noémie; Mayrhofer, Ulrike

doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.03.010

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“…The aforementioned views are also in agreement with Dominguez and Mayrhofer (), who contend, despite the challenges that the global economy pose to small and medium firms, such economy also offers new opportunities. These and other comments underlining consideration of other markets and associated investments to do so (SP8, SP9, SP10, IP7, and IP8) were supported by the main findings (Table ), and further demonstrate many participants are sensing and anticipating events.…”

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Dynamic capabilities in the context of Brexit and international wine business: An exploratory two‐country study

Alonso

Kok

2018

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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This exploratory study proposes a conceptual framework based on the dynamic capabilities approach (DCA) to advance the understanding of firms' responses to turbulence, illustrated by the Brexit phenomenon. The case of wine producers is examined, with a particular focus on perceived impacts of and responses to Brexit among wineries predominantly involved in exports.Data from 281 mainly micro and small exporting Italian and Spanish winery firms were gathered.Various differences emerged in how both groups of businesses perceived Brexit's impacts, and how they planned to respond. Some of these ways revealed principles associated with the DCA, such as possessing critical organizational resources, notably, tangible, intangible, and human to create capabilities. Furthermore, while various comments denoted indecisiveness and uncertainty, others underscored the vital need to exploit opportunities through engaging with new international consumer markets. Overall, the proposed framework facilitates an in-depth understanding of winery entrepreneurs' strategic behavior in response to turbulent situations.

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Dynamic capabilities in the context of Brexit and international wine business: An exploratory two‐country study

Alonso

Kok

2018

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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“…Many studies have shown that governmental R&D funding positively affects innovation efficiency. Dominguez and Mayrhofer (2017) believed that government R&D funding can effectively promote the return of firms' R&D. Hall and Bagchi‐Sen (2002, 2007) noted that a significant, positive correlation exists between government incentives and innovation efficiency in the biotechnology industry. As Choi, Lee, and Williams (2011) concluded that governmental R&D in developed countries such as the United States and those in Europe have positive influences on a firm's innovation capability.…”

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Government support and firm innovation performance in Chinese science and technology parks: The perspective of firm and sub‐park heterogeneity

Teng

Zhang

et al. 2020

Growth and Change

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Science and technology parks (STPs) are established to promote the firm innovation performance via agglomeration economy and government support in China. On-site qualified firms obtain government R&D funding as a type of government support, and they are offered differential innovation service caused by the differential capabilities of subparks which scatter throughout a single city. It is debatable whether those government supports at firm and sub-park levels can promote firm innovation capabilities. This study takes Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone, Shanghai as an example. It applies a Tobit regression model to analyse the databases of Zhangjiang Annual Sampling Survey of Firms 2015 and Zhangjiang Development Report 2015. We find out at the firm level, government R&D funding has a significant and positive influence on firms' innovation, but government R&D funding generates a crowing-out effect the innovation performance of on-site firms with more R&D investment themselves. At the sub-park level, innovation service agencies of sub-parks do not exert an important role in influencing firms' innovation, and they even have negative moderating effects on the relationship 750 |

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“…Internationalization patterns (both in terms of pace and modes) are influenced by several dimensions [39]. The internationalization process of SMEs derives from the combined action of a number of internal and external factors [37,[59][60][61]; which appear in the stages of business activity at several levels [62]. The two more cited internationalization models are the Uppsala model and the born global approach [8,[37][38][39][40][41].…”

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“…The internationalization process of SMEs derives from the combined action of a number of internal and external factors [37,[59][60][61]; which appear in the stages of business activity at several levels [62]. The two more cited internationalization models are the Uppsala model and the born global approach [8,[37][38][39][40][41]. In addition to these models, three perspectives have dominated international business research over the past four decades [42]: Dunning's framework, transaction costs and internalization theory [8,41,63].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Internationalization literature has focused on MNEs; yet, SMEs are structurally different from MNE [9]. The two more cited internationalization models in the literature are the Uppsala model and the born-global model [8,[37][38][39][40][41]. The Uppsala Model, 'through a fortuitous combination of timing within the intellectual trajectory of the international business field and the model's inherent characteristics, it has evolved from a model with refutable hypotheses to become a 'paradigm' in the Kuhnian sense' [40].…”

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Internationalization Business Models and Patterns of SMEs and MNEs: A Qualitative Multi-Case Study in the Agrifood Sector

2019

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Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the agri-food sector have been overcoming internationalization barriers. However, research is scarce, specifically to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, despite the importance of the sector. The main aim of our study is to explore the archetypes and internationalization pace of internationalized SMEs and MNEs in the agri-food sector, adopting an external perspective and an empirical approach. More particularly, the influence of the interaction of demand-side innovation and management control systems (MCSs) in companies in the industry is examined. A qualitative research design was developed in order to achieve an in-depth understanding of the contextual factors affecting international SMEs and MNEs in the agri-food sector. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with three SME and three MNE managers. Our findings suggest that SMEs are not fundamentally different from MNEs—both types of organizations best fit the Casino model archetype. It was also found that strong competition helps the development of collaborative innovation, directing advancement toward fulfilling consumer demand. MCSs are neither communicating information nor managing perceived risks by creating trust and confidence; they are mostly used for diagnostic purposes, not substantially influencing the innovation process.

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Internationalization stages of traditional SMEs: Increasing, decreasing and re-increasing commitment to foreign markets

Cited by 156 publications

References 48 publications

Dynamic capabilities in the context of Brexit and international wine business: An exploratory two‐country study

Dynamic capabilities in the context of Brexit and international wine business: An exploratory two‐country study

Government support and firm innovation performance in Chinese science and technology parks: The perspective of firm and sub‐park heterogeneity

Internationalization Business Models and Patterns of SMEs and MNEs: A Qualitative Multi-Case Study in the Agrifood Sector

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