Networks and Foreign Markets How Relationships Shape the SME's Internationalization Process

This edited volume explores the process by which SMEs internationalize. It discusses the importance of domestic and international networks for firms’ activities and business performance. Offering vast empirical evidence from different industries, the book begins with a theoretical overview of intern...

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Other Authors: Díez Vial, Isabel (Editor), Fernández-Olmos, Marta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. INTRODUCTION. Chapter 1. Introduction to internationalization from a network approach: the relevance of domestic and international relationships
  • II. THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONALIZATION FROM A NETWORK APPROACH
  • Chapter 2. Internationalization of SMEs through networks: a bibliometric approach
  • III. THE EFFECT OF DOMESTIC NETWORKS ON INTERNATIONALIZATION
  • Chapter 3. The influence of founders’ social identity and decision-making in the speed of internationalization: A configurational perspective
  • Chapter 4. Networks and internationalization process of clustered firms: understanding geography in the internationalization process
  • Chapter 6. Supply Chain networks on internationalization of SMEs: identifying co-opetition strategies
  • Chapter 7. Business and non-business networks: Illustrating the profile of highly innovative manufacturing SMEs
  • IV. NETWORKS IN FOREIGN MARKETS: IN SEARCH FOR DISTANT INTERMEDIARIES
  • Chapter 8. International business network: Do Family firms benefit more?
  • Chapter 9. The role of global value chains in explaining the globalization of the wine industry
  • Chapter 10. The role of corporate venture capital firms in international new ventures
  • V. CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • Chapter 11. Networks and internationalization: implications for different stages of the internationalization process