The awareness of business networks and skilled use of resources available through them make it possible to accelerate the process of internationalization and also increase the success from movement into a foreign market. The role of business networks in the internationalization of the firms is...

Following China's "One Belt One Road" global economic expansion strategy, Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) along with state-owned, large corporations are increasingly seeking business opportunities internationally. Little is known about the process of small firms' international...

This paper examines if the identity shaped by the region does have an influence on the owner-manager's managerial behaviour. Two hypotheses have been formulated that are based on the identity theory saying that an individual's self consists of a set of different identities. The paper is based on...

Small businesses are increasingly becoming the drivers of the holistic growth of a nation and also contributing to global development across sectors and some regions. Despite these considerations, overall the participation of MSMEs in international trade has remained insignificant and sparse....

Participation in the global value chain could lead to different impacts on small and medium firms' performances. In this paper, we examine the relationship between the participation of the Vietnamese economy in the global value chain and small and medium firms' innovation in Viet Nam over the...