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The Effect of Emerging Economies Operations on Knowledge Utilization: The Behavior of International Companies as Exaptat...

Published in International Business and Emerging Economy Firms

No one informed the dinosaurs that their thermal insulation could someday be useful for another purpose, yet their feathers developed into wings. This example describes exaptation, the discovery of new uses for existing traits; complementary to adaptation. The former, which is similar to opportunity recognition, and the latter, which follows enviro...

Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs: Implications on Competitive Performance

Published in management revu

This study explores the relevance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The role of CSR in SMEs has so far been scarcely researched, and the relationship between internationalisation and CSR development in SMEs, in particular, could do with the further study. Since it has been found th...

Perfiles institucionales de país: Evidencia de empresas exportadoras de software de Colombia

Published in Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración

Propósito Este estudio muestra cómo el entorno institucional percibido por parte de las pequeñas y medianas empresas (Pymes) exportadoras de Colombia determina su desempeño. Diseño/metodología/acercamiento a la investigación Nuestra investigación aplica un modelo de regresión a una muestra de 43 Pymes exportadoras de Colombia de la industria d...

Country institutional profiles: evidence from Colombian software exporters

Published in Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the perceived institutional environment of Colombian internationally operating small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the software industry comes to determine their performance. Design/methodology/approach The research applies regression modelling to a sample of 43 internationally o...

The Rise and Fall of an International New Venture: The Case of an Online Medical Tourism Platform

Published in Reverse Entrepreneurship in Latin America

Thomas moves to Colombia. He teams up with Daniel to create an Internet platform on which hospitals, clinics, and doctors from Colombia can offer their services to patients from the US. The promotion of medical tourism is a priority for the local government. Thomas decides to outsource the design and programming of Flyclinic’s Internet platform. Th...

No manager is an island: culture in sensemaking of business networking

Published in Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the role of culture in managerial sensemaking and conceptualization of business networking. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply qualitative methodology through the sensemaking approach on three Finnish and three Russian managers in mutual buyer–supplier business relationship dyads. Findings ...

Subsidiary’s Network Competence: Finnish Multinational Companies in Russia

Published in Journal of East-West Business

Multinational companies tend to have resources and be capable of establishing subsidiaries across national borders, yet successful foreign operations also require that the established subsidiaries are able to become locally embedded in host-country networks. This study contributes to the international business research by investigating how and when...

The entrepreneurial ecosystem and born globals: the Estonian context

Published in Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a framework of the elements of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the context of born global start-ups. The study also applies this framework to uncover the ecosystem elements that impact start-ups during their initial phases of discovery and validation. Design/methodology/approach The authors used...

Emerging Issues in Global Marketing

This book examines emerging theories, frameworks, and applications of global marketing for the 21st century. It highlights how global marketing is changing in a globalized and digital economy that is fast increasing in complexity and uncertainty. The traditional approach to global marketing is no longer sufficient to address the emerging issues in ...

CSR-Driven Entrepreneurial Internationalization: Evidence of Firm-Specific Advantages in International Performance of SM...

Published in Emerging Issues in Global Marketing

This study examines an emerging yet somewhat neglected theme in international and global marketing literature, namely, the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and market-sensing capability in international enterprises. Specifically, we illustrate how CSR and market-sensing capability impact international performance in the context of smal...

Sustainability and Knowledge Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Growth: Evidence from Internationalizing Finnish SMEs

Published in Global Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Growth: Coopetition and Knowledge Dynamics within and across Firms

The impact of environmental sustainability and knowledge dynamics on entrepreneurial growth and internationalization could do with added research focus. However, the rising importance of corporate sustainability and social responsibility in global business and entrepreneurship increasingly requires that these interdependencies be assessed. We asses...

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in Internationally Operating SMEs: Implications for Performance

Published in Value Creation in International Business

Concepts relating to corporate sustainability (CS) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have remained vastly under-explored in international entrepreneurship literature. The recent reviews by Jones et al. (2011) and Peiris et al. (2012) do not find a single study of CSR and indicate that sustainability is discussed in the traditional sense of ...

Network competence in Finnish SMEs: implications for growth

Published in Baltic Journal of Management

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how network competence is related to the growth of domestic and international SMEs originating from the Nordic region. Business networks have been found to drive internationalization of SMEs in the Nordic context, but the impact of network-related organizational competencies on them has not been cons...

Business Strategies in Internationalisation Outcomes among SMEs

Published in Impact of International Business

In this chapter, we investigate the influence of business strategies upon the internationalisation of SMEs. In particular, we investigate the effect of strategic aim for unique products development and quality focus, the two business strategies suggested to be linked to the international performance of rapidly internationalising firms by Knight and...