The internationalization and performance of SMEs

By J. Lu, Paul W. Beamish. 2001

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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International Diversification: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators (2006, neutral): “Still others report a U-shape relationship between international diversification and firm performance, which is due to an interaction between initial governance costs and learning effects (Lu & Beamish, 2001; Ruigrok & Wagner, 2003).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and SME performance across societal cultures: An international study (2016, background): “…between EO and performance among SMEs seems useful because SMEs are particularly important for countries' economic development (Javalgi & Todd, 2011) and play an increasingly active role within the broader trend of internationalization (Kraus, Ambos, Eggers, & Cesinger, 2015; Lu & Beamish, 2001).”
Exploring the Role of Industry Structure in New Venture Internationalization (2007, positive): “…preliminary evidence implies a link between new venture internationalization and higher levels of new venture performance (Bloodgood et al., 1996; Lu & Beamish, 2001; McDougall & Oviatt, 1996; Zahra et al., 2000), the assumption that varying industry conditions influences the ultimate…”
Process innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises: The critical roles of external knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity (2020, background): “Scholars have long acknowledged that SMEs are not simply smaller versions of large organizations (e.g., Lu & Beamish, 2006, 2001; Sadeghi et al., 2018); the process and outcomes associated with applying open innovation are likely to differ between SMEs and larger firms, as SMEs are typically…”
Barriers to Internationalisation: A Study of Entrepreneurial New Ventures in New Zealand (2004, background): “International entrepreneurship is emerging as an important area of research within International Business (e.g., Rhee, 2002; Lu and Beamish, 2001 ) with a number of academics calling for greater integration of the literature on entrepreneurship and internationalisation (Madsen and Servais, 1997).”
Determinants of the Internationalization Pathways of Family Firms: An Examination of Family Influence (2008, background): “Because of a historical bias toward the research of the globalization of large businesses (Coviello & Munro, 1997; Lu & Beamish, 2001), and the importance of the globalization of small-tomedium enterprises (SMEs) for national econo- mies (OECD, 1997), this study focuses on smallto-medium-sized…”
Performance, Internationalization, and Firm-specific Advantages of SMEs in a Newly-Industrialized Economy (2006, background): “Recently, the significant role played by SMEs in international markets has come to be recognized ( Lu and Beamish, 2001; Oviatt and Mcdougall, 1994).”
The Effects of Ownership and Governance on SMEs’ International Knowledge-based Resources (2007, methodology): “The analyses captured SMEs knowledge-based resources dedicated to internationalization using 14 survey items that we derived from the literature (e.g., Adler and Kwon, 2002; Dyer and Singh, 1998; Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998; Oviatt and McDougall, 1997; Westhead et al., 2001).”
Decision mode, information and network attachment in the internationalization of SMEs: A configurational and contingency analysis (2014, background): “It has been found that SMEs often make use of networks to reduce information asymmetry and facilitate their internationalization (Lu & Beamish, 2001; Zhou, Wu, & Luo, 2007), and that 2 this is likely to be particularly true of rapidly internationalizing new ventures (Coviello, 2006).”
The competitive advantage of early and rapidly internationalising SMEs in the biotechnology industry: A knowledge-based view (2007, background): “It also tries to find out whether any of these modes is superior in terms of firm performance (e.g., Lu & Beamish, 2001) and analyses the relationships between modes and speed of the internationalisation process (e.g., Hashai & Almor, 2004).”