Examining the role of international entrepreneurship, innovation and international market performance in SME internationalisation

By Aron O'Cass, J. Weerawardena. 2009

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Purpose – The current study aims to examine the role of international entrepreneurship and innovation in small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) internationalisation, also touching on the role of the firm size as a proxy of resources in the SME internationalisation process. The study seeks to look at these issues in the context of manufacturing firms, arguing that entrepreneurial SMEs pursuing international market entry undertake organisational innovation, which in turn enables such firms to achieve higher marketplace performance.Design/methodology/approach – The paper was based on the development and administration of a self‐completed survey of 302 managers.Findings – The results suggest that international SMEs differ from non‐international SMEs in terms of international entrepreneurship, organisational innovation intensity and firm size.Research limitations/implications – The cross‐sectional research design and the regional nature of the sampled firms may limit the generalisability of the findings. The m...

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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3. Margarida Vicente
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4. Morgan P. Miles
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Citations in the corpus

• Internationalization Orientation in SMEs: The Mediating Role of Technological Innovation (2019, background): “Such firms have performed better than their competitors in foreign markets in terms of market share, customer satisfaction, sales revenue and profitability (O'Cass and Weerawardena, 2009).”
• Measuring innovation capability in exporting firms: the INNOVSCALE (2015, background): “The degree of innovation can be distinguished between radical and incremental (O’Cass and Weerawardena, 2009; Weerawardena, 2003).”
• Exploring entrepreneurial marketing (2015, methodology): “…quantitative methods such as SEM, Amos, and PLS suggesting that at least some EM research has begun to satisfy the criteria for classifying EM as having ‘law-like generalizations’ (see for example Darroch & Miles, 2011; O’Cass & Sok, 2012; O’Cass & Weerawardena, 2009; Sok, O’Cass, & Sok, 2013).”