SMEs' internationalisation: When does innovation matter?
By George Saridakis, Bochra Idris, Jared M. Hansen, Léo‐Paul Dana. Journal of business research, 2019
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Abstract The objective of this research is threefold: first, to investigate the role of goods, service, and process innovation on SMEs' internationalisation (i.e., exporting); second, to investigate the association between innovation's degree of novelty (radical innovation vs. incremental innovation) and SMEs' internationalisation; and, third, to examine the combined effect of different types of innovation and the degrees of novelty of innovation on firms' internationalisation and compare the findings with their individual effects. Data from 12,823 SMEs in the United Kingdom support the concept that innovative SMEs are more likely to export than non-innovative SMEs; however, the link between innovation and internationalisation differs according to the type of innovation introduced and the degree of novelty of the innovation. Of importance to managerial practice, the combined effects of different types and degrees of novelty of innovation are greater than their individual effects, creating a synergy or amplified effect.
Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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- Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): The Engine of Economic Growth through Investments and Innovation (2020, background): “[72] differentiate amid radical innovation defined as progression in knowledge due to the advance of novel products and processes that are new to the market/industry and incremental innovation defined as an unremitting enhancement to products, processes or services that are novel to the firm only.”
- Inter-organizational collaboration and SMEs’ innovation: A systematic review and future research directions (2020, background): “First, in spite of the strategic importance of process and service innovation (Gupta & Barua, 2016; Saridakis et al., 2019), the existing research focused primarily on product innovation, thereby leaving”