The factors that determine firms' levels of internationalization remain a focal area of international business research. Within this research stream, studies building on the upper echelons theory have investigated the influence of the demographic characteristics of the top management team (TMT)...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the number of minority international joint ventures (MIJVs) formed and the level of internationalization attained in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We argue that this is an inverted U-shaped...

Recognizing on one hand the importance of the MSE sector for growth and development of economies in the Pacific region and on the other, the financing constraints of the sector, we survey a group of MSEs in a Pacific island country and find that they may particularly be constrained by banks'...

The basic goal of this article is an attempt to conduct comparative analysis of innovation determinants in companies of small and medium enterprises sector in Brazil and Poland. The comparison shall enable evaluation which determinants stimulate and which are barriers to innovativeness...

This study focuses on the impact of financial inclusion and bank concentration on the performance of firms in developing and emerging countries. Using firm-level data for a sample of 55,596 firms in 79 countries, we find that financial inclusion, i.e. the distribution of financial services...

The literature on working capital management (WCM) provides mixed evidence on the effect of working capital on firm profitability and performance. We use firms from developed and emerging economies to explore how working capital and its components relate to firms' performance while controlling...

This study examines whether domestic banks perform better than their foreign-owned counterparts, by examining the banking system across eight Southeast Asian countries for the period 1994-2005. According to our results, banks' performance worsened in the post-Asian crisis period. The higher...

The essay presents Small Houses (SH) as a potential solution to the British housing crisis. The author argues that with a more permissive regulatory framework, people can find solutions in their reach to cope with the housing crisis

Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs), just like large corporates target foreign markets for growth, profit and survival motives. Reaching global markets is a dream for every business as there are better prices elsewhere as compared to local industries who might be controlled. Also opening new...

The main objective of this research is to propose a conceptual model, with the view of assess ing the link between size, age, market orientation and performance. We have chosen the foodprocessing small businesses as our empirical field of application. An important number of smallenterprises were...