...Arpita Agnihotri; Saurabh Bhattacharya Purpose This study, leveraging the upper echelon and social network theories, aims to explore the association between chief executive officers (CEO’s) polychronicity and small and medium size enterprises (SMEs’) international performance under the complete...

... Strategic performance Financial performance Business networks Social networks Korean SMEs Internationalization is vital for the growth and survival of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (Manolova et al., 2010). Accordingly, Korean SMEs actively internationalize to avoid intense...

... that an important factor that can influence the international diversification decision is social networks. We hypothesize that both the strength of the ties to international firms and the size of a SME’s international network influence its decision to diversify internationally. Our analysis suggests...