...Maria-Cristina Stoian Purpose Despite the importance of foreign market entry mode (FMEM) decisions for the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), there is insufficient understanding of the knowledge types and sources necessary for such decisions. This study addresses...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Entrepreneurial ecosystems Global value chain participation Internationalisation Innovation Fuzzy-set QCA The recent rapid developments in information and communication technologies...

...Apoorva Jain; Sonal Thukral; Justin Paul One of the factors that make internationalisation of family firms a complex phenomenon is the socioemotional wealth (SEW) that they accumulate over the years. The term SEW was first coined by Gómez-Mejía et al. (2007) in the family business...

... the challenges faced by new resource-constrained firms and the individual-level resources of the entrepreneurs. This research contributes to the RBV, entrepreneurship and internationalisation debate by identifying the interplay between RBV and effectuation theory, particularly by bringing forward the impact...

... the behavioural competencies that distinguish entrepreneurs who pursue a stronger internationalisation expansion beyond the European market. A competency modelling process is implemented for a sample of Italian entrepreneurs. Data on behavioural competencies are obtained through the coding of behavioural...

...Pratik Arte Much attention has been invested in understanding the phenomenon of early internationalising firms in different country contexts, including Australia (Rasmussan et al., 2001); China (Zhou, 2007), Denmark (Moen and Servais, 2002 ; Rasmussan et al., 2001), Finland...

... and organisation of global activities by SMEs. Barbosa and Fuller (chapter 5) consider entrepreneurs and their personal and business relations and the role and acquisition of social capital in the internationalisation of SMEs. They suggest support agencies should provide conditions for entrepreneurs to expand...

... (ATG), which was created in 1991 as a partnership between Enterprise Ayrshire, a government funded body, and the local textile industry. This paper briefly reviews the existing literature describing the internationalisation process of firms and discusses why SMEs may consider networks as a means...