... exporters achieve resilience through strategic choices related to sourcing and manufacturing during global disruptions. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative, multiple-case-studies approach to identify the key strategic drivers and contextual factors influencing SME exporters...

... for the study lies in a multiple case study of six high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors selected two firms from each of three high-tech industries: biotechnology (specifically drug development), renewable energy and ICT. The key decision makers in each firms were then interviewed...

... approach to theory development and uses the case method of investigation. Three case studies were developed from primary and secondary sources. A total of 153 pieces of documentation were used to reconstruct past events, in addition to the interviews and information from company sites, permitting...

... by the “born global” stream of researchers. Design/methodology/approach This is an inductive and exploratory study that tries to understand questions of how and why. A multiple case study method is used to find empirical evidence for the a priori assumptions derived from the literature. Findings...

..., 2001). 2. Pprocess flexibility (Sharfman and Dean, 1997). 3. Strategic options (Sanchez, 1993). Flexible organizations Exports Marketing strategy Case studies Recently, Eisenhardt (2002) argued that the global, “high‐velocity playing field” creates unstable business...