SME internationalization beyond exporting

Autor(en)

Maria Cristina Stoian, Pavlos Dimitratos, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki

Abstrakt

Micromultinationals are small and medium-sized enterprises that engage in foreign market entry modes beyond exporting. The purpose of this study is to unveil the knowledge types required by micromultinationals. To this end, we conducted an interpretive interview study involving managers and advisers. We extend the SME internationalization literature by distilling the knowledge types that this unique body of small multinationals requires. Furthermore, we generate a framework that enhances the knowledge-based perspective by showing that micromultinational expansion is led by tacitly dominated knowledge of internal actors related to products, industries, and markets and facilitated by functional knowledge provided by external actors.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Brunel University London, University of Glasgow, University of Leeds

Journal

Journal of World Business

Band

53

Seiten

768-779

Anzahl der Seiten

12

ISSN

1090-9516

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.06.001

Publikationsdatum

11-2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

502016 KMU-Forschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Business and International Management, Finance, Marketing

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/9fa38e03-e365-4cec-8746-6619b97846b6