SME international business models: The role of context and experience

J Child, L Hsieh, S Elbanna, J Karmowska… - Journal of World …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper addresses two questions through a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting
industry and home country contexts. First, which business models for international markets …

SME internationalization modes in the German biotechnology industry: The influence of imitation, network position, and international experience

M Oehme, S Bort - Journal of International Business Studies, 2015 - Springer
In this article we reveal how network-enabled imitation processes impact young small-and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) internationalization, and how a firm's network position as …

Investments, incentives, and innovation: geographical clustering dynamics as drivers of sustainable entrepreneurship

SA Sunny, C Shu - Small Business Economics, 2019 - Springer
This study attempts to fill the literature gap regarding sustainable entrepreneurship viewed
through geographical clustering lenses by examining how institutional factors such as local …

[HTML][HTML] Entrepreneurs' network bricolage: Reconfiguring social ties for resource creation

FYM Chang, CM Webster, MA Alam… - Journal of Business …, 2024 - Elsevier
The entrepreneurship literature demonstrates the positive impact of network bricolage on
resource-seeking. We extend this work by examining why and how entrepreneurs …

Clusters and industrial districts: Where is the literature going? Identifying emerging sub-fields of research

JL Hervas-Oliver, G Gonzalez, P Caja… - European Planning …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The industrial district and cluster literature has generated an extraordinary quantity of
articles, debates and topics for discussion, and encompasses one of the most vibrant lines of …

Influence of innovativeness, environmental competitiveness and government, industry and professional networks on SME export likelihood

FYM Chang, CM Webster - Journal of small business management, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study is to examine how small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in
different industry segments utilize government, industry, and professional networks and to …

Proactive international strategies of cluster SMEs

M Gancarczyk, J Gancarczyk - European Management Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
In this conceptual paper, proactive international strategies of small-and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) in the cluster context are discussed. The majority of cluster SMEs …

R&D intensity, domestic institutional environment, and SMEs' OFDI in emerging markets

P Qiao, M Lv, Y Zeng - Management International Review, 2020 - Springer
Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
from emerging economies has emerged as a significant phenomenon in global markets …

Starting open source collaborative innovation: the antecedents of network formation in community source

M Liu, CE Hull, YTC Hung - Information Systems Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Specific needs in the area of enterprise applications have led to a new type of collaborative
open source innovation development across institution borders: community source. We use …

Outsidership vs insidership–internationalization of health-care SMEs

K Lagerström, C Lindholm - Journal of Business & Industrial …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The paper aims to explore how small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the
health-care sector overcome the liability of being an outsider, instead of gaining a position …