... used strategy by firms to become international is exportation (Leonidou et al., 2010). Based on this idea of a global world, we decided to study the principal factors influencing firms’ international performance. Export performance Partner relationship Internationalization Noneconomic...

...Luis Enrique Ibarra-Morales; Monica Blanco-Jimenez; Beatriz Alejandra Hurtado-Bringas Purpose The purpose of this paper is to boost the internationalization of companies by implementing key factors that will help them to increase their exports in a context of an emerging country such as Mexico...

...-use rights only Internationalization International management Latent profile analysis Typologies Latent variables M16 International management Internacionalización Gestión Internacional Latent Profile Análisis Tipologías Variables latentes For this reason, the present...

...Lasse Torkkeli; Sascha Fuerst Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the perceived institutional environment of Colombian internationally operating small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the software industry comes to determine their performance. Design/methodology/approach...

...Guillermo Jesus Larios Hernandez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the antecedents of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) internationalization for a small set of Mexican ICT entrepreneurial firms, connected with subsectoral positions in a smile-shaped curve. Such antecedents...

.../methodology/approach This paper studies how Chilean born‐global firms behave and examine five distinct factors as compared to enterprises that gradually internationalize. A logistic regression model was applied to a sample of 115 small‐ and mid‐sized enterprises (SMEs) that presented a growing and non...

...Olivia Vieira Marx Andrade; Renata Pautasso Barreto Amorim; Fabiana Cassilha Pires; Marcus Wilcox Hemais Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show students the problems that a Brazilian franchise in the fast food sector faced while internationalizing its business to Mexico and Spain...

... markets. It has been prepared to facilitate discussion and learning about appropriate growth strategies and the building, positioning and branding of companies from emerging economies within the internationalization processes. Design/methodology/approach The case study is based on primary research...