Internationalization is recognized as a valuable strategy for organizations’ growth and expansion; however little is known about the determinants of internationalization of SMEs in Malaysia, which is in a fast growing economy. In attempt to investigate the antecedents of internationalization, three key determinants are identified: the competitive advantage, the management attitude and the manag...

For XML, the backbone for world-wide document and data encoding, transmission, and processing, it is critical to be usable all around the world quickly and easily. Good internationalization is easily taken for granted, but bad or missing internationalization becomes extremely annoying. The paper discusses the success of XML internationalization, the internationalization topics currently being w...

Business groups play a critical role in the internationalization of Chinese firms, but empirical efforts on this topic are limited. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the impacts of group-specific attributes on the pursuit of different internationalization strategies. Our findings from 219 Chinese business group affiliates show that horizontal linkages among group affiliates are more...

Researchers have typically searched for and postulated a universalistic form of the internationalization-performance relationship. In this study, we evaluate the validity of this ‘grande theory’ logic by investigating 80 Swiss multinational companies in manufacturing industries over the 5-year period 1998-2002. Our findings suggest that the form of the internationalization-performance relations...

This whitepaper discusses the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises. Furthermore it contains subjects like internationalization of SMEs in the time of globalization, reasons for internationalization, SMEs’ motives for internationalization, different forms and models of SMEs internationalization and dealing with internationalization by SMEs. INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMES IN T...

Until now, international entrepreneurship has mainly used stage theory, institutional theory, transaction cost economics and the resource-based view to explain or describe the internationalization of SMEs in transition economy context. Following recent literature we contend that these approaches are highlighting interesting elements of decision processes for internationalization, but are not ye...

This study examines how IT influences the extent of internationalization of firms by using firmlevel data on the IT investments and international operations of US multinationals for the 19992005 period. We identify managerial/operational complexity, geographic dispersion of subunits, and contextual differences between home and host countries as the main challenges involved in internationalizati...

The relevance of global economy are being enhanced day by day, organizational internationalization is becoming more and more important nowadays. Many companies have stated their internationalization process, but not all of them are successful. Thus, the main purpose and aim of this study is to research the relationship between the internal management of organization and firm internationalizatio...

Little is known about how SMEs export business Software as a Service. This article describes six case studies in which prevailing factors regarded as essential for the internationalization process of Software as a Service are identified: generic software, a domestic market base, technical internationalization and localization, entrepreneurial management, personal customer contact, and usage of ...

â â â  â â â â â  abstract â  the research on social networks and collaborative strategies has highlighted from the mid of 1980 which has contributed to the success and development of firms. the relationship and communication with trade partners in overseas help success of firms in entering to foreign markets and improve new partners and new markets abroad. doing firm internationalization in fo...