Despite a growing awareness of the internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), there is still insufficient knowledge about this topic. The authors focus on the following issues: (1) characteristics of principal founders, businesses and the external environment influencing...

In the management literature, tacit knowledge has been conceptualized in divergent, contradictory and flawed ways. This paper reconciles these differences by explaining how they address different aspects of the theory of tacit knowing developed in the seminal work of Michael Polanyi. To clarify...