SME internationalisation: past, present and future trends

Fernandes, Cristina; Veiga, Pedro Mota; Gerschewski, Stephan

doi:10.1108/jocm-05-2022-0146

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“…D. Sarasvathy, 2001) in extending the opportunity-based view of traditional SMEs’ internationalization by investigating the role of AMC, GM, and CI in IOI and IOE. Fernandes et al (2023) argued that intrinsic characteristics of SMEs’ managers and SMES’ resources and capabilities are two fundamental theoretical approaches to explaining SMEs internationalization. This study concluded that AMCs, GM, and CI are essential for IOI and IOE among Chinese internationalized traditional SMEs.…”

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An Examination of the Identification and Exploitation of International Opportunities Among Chinese Traditional SMEs

Ali,

Li,

et al. 2023

Sage Open

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SMEs’ internationalization research focused mainly on measuring their international performance, especially in IT-based and knowledge-intensive industries while little attention was paid to investigating the opportunity-based view of firm internationalization especially in the context of traditional SMES. The main objectives of the present study were twofold. First, building on the opportunity-based view of firm internationalization, this study investigated the international opportunity identification (IOI) and international opportunity exploitation (IOE) among Chinese traditional SMEs. Second, this research examined the direct influence of SMEs managers' adaptive marketing capabilities (AMCs), global mindset (GM), and collaborative intensity (CI) on IOI and IOE with emphasis on the potential moderating influence of environmental dynamism (ED). The initial phase of this research employed exploratory interviews with eight SMEs managers. Exploratory findings showed that Chinese SMEs adopt both entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial internationalization behaviors in identifying and exploiting international opportunities. Later, an empirical investigation using 327 valid responses from managers/founders of traditional internationalized SMEs in China showed that AMCs, GM, and CI had a significant positive influence on both IOI and IOE. Further, ED was found to play a significant moderating impact on the relationship between AMCs and IOI, GM and IOI, and CI and IOE. This paper ends with clarifying a set of theoretical and practical implications.

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An Examination of the Identification and Exploitation of International Opportunities Among Chinese Traditional SMEs

Ali,

Li,

et al. 2023

Sage Open

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“…Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered a central part of global economies, contributing to innovation practises, internationalisation activities, economic development and sustainability transitions (Fernandes et al. , 2023; Jansson et al.…”

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“…This configures an important gap in the literature considering not only the importance of SMEs for global economies, but also the distinct features of SMEs and large business that the business model research tends to focus on (Cosenz and Bivona, 2021;Foss and Saebi, 2018;Spieth et al, 2014;Zott et al, 2011). This paucity of research gains further significance considering that SMEs often undergo business model transformation and business model innovation to implement innovation practises (Balakrishnan and Das, 2020;Hu and Hughes, 2020;Liao et al, 2019), entrepreneurial practises (Asemokha et al, 2019;Cucculelli and Bettinelli, 2015), internationalisation practises (Dabi c et al, 2020;Fernandes et al, 2023;Sadeghi et al, 2023), digital practises (Bahoo et al, 2023;Bouncken et al, 2021;Bouwman et al, 2019;Ghezzi and Cavallo, 2020) and sustainable practises (Chaudhuri et al, 2022;Klewitz and Hansen, 2014;Vrontis et al, 2021) that are key to their performance. The research on business models of SMEs tends to focus on specific aspects, such as circular business models (Ferasso et al, 2020;Geissdoerfer et al, 2020), sustainable business models (Ferreira et al, 2022), sustainable entrepreneurship , sharing economy business models (Soltysova and Modrak, 2020) and business model experimentation towards digital transformation (Bouwman et al, 2019).…”

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“…There are calls for research that adopts a wide approach of business models of SMEs (e.g. Fernandes et al, 2023) which aids to structure knowledge on this field. To address emerging literature gaps, this paper is set to review the literature on business models of SMEs, examining the profile, conceptual and intellectual structure of the literature, whilst leveraging the findings to suggest promising future paths that can be explored to advance our knowledge on business models of SMEs.…”

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Innovative business models of SMEs: state-of-the-art and future research agenda

Ferreira,

Candeias Fernandes,

Gerschewski

2024

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PurposeThis paper reviews the literature on the business models of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It seeks to examine the profile, conceptual and intellectual structure of the literature whilst leveraging the findings to suggest promising future paths to advance our knowledge on business models of SMEs.Design/methodology/approachThe study resorts to a systematic literature review that conducts descriptive, bibliometric (i.e. co-word occurrence analysis and bibliographic coupling of documents analysis) and content analyses to review the literature on business models of SMEs. The research protocol included 301 articles collected in the Web of Science (WoS) database in the descriptive and bibliometric analyses. The bibliometric analysis was performed using the VOSviewer software.FindingsThe descriptive analysis portrayed the profile of this research stream. The systematisation of the co-word occurrence analysis describes the four clusters that comprise the conceptual structure of this research field. The content analysis of the bibliographic coupling of documents’ clusters portrays the seven clusters that involve the intellectual structure of this research area.Originality/valueThe integrated and holistic approach adopted in this study provides a detailed overview of the literature on business models of SMEs. We propose an integrative framework for the literature that bridges the main themes that form the conceptual and intellectual structure of this field of research. A comprehensive agenda for future research is suggested and implications for theory, policy and practice are stated.

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Exploration of global Halal food SMEs research through state approach: bibliometric analysis

Bahara,

Nur Aidi,

Syamsu

et al. 2024

JIMA

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Purpose This study aims to explore the country’s contribution to research on halal food small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) taken from the Scopus database for 10 years from 2013 to 2022 so that it can provide an overview of the effort that needs to be made by the government to improve research in this field. Design/methodology/approach The method used in this study was bibliometric analysis. The data comes from the Scopus database over the past 10 years (2013–2022). To create data visualization and network analysis using VOSviewer, Scimago Graphica, Bibliometrix and MS Excel. Findings Research on halal food SMEs has grown by almost 25%, with Malaysia leading with 447 publications. The UK is the leading country in publishing research articles with 44 journals. Malaysia has the most institutions (40 institutions for 25% globally). Malaysia has most research funding agencies (22 for 14% globally). Malaysia has the highest number of citations in halal food SMEs, with 3547 citations, followed by China and Indonesia. Malaysia has also the highest number of collaborating researchers and the most invitations. Future research focuses on sustainability, social issues, Internet of Things technologies, innovative technologies and strategies to increase productivity and competitiveness. Originality/value This research is a reference and overview of future research in halal food SMEs with the perspective of a country contribution angle. It provides input to the government on what needs to be done to develop research in the halal field in line with the goal of a country becoming the center of the global halal industry.

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SME internationalisation: past, present and future trends

Cited by 9 publications

References 82 publications

An Examination of the Identification and Exploitation of International Opportunities Among Chinese Traditional SMEs

An Examination of the Identification and Exploitation of International Opportunities Among Chinese Traditional SMEs

Innovative business models of SMEs: state-of-the-art and future research agenda

Exploration of global Halal food SMEs research through state approach: bibliometric analysis

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