Purpose: Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is an exploratory orientation because its dimensions such as innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking are the essence of exploration that entails uncertain returns. While literature suggests firms might need to counterbalance and complement EO with...

Purpose: Integrating network attributes from studies of social networks, business relationships and small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) internationalization, this study adopts a perceptual view of a firm’s focal “net” of relationships to examine foreign market entry mode choice. This...

The literature suggests that improving the management knowledge and skills of owner-managers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contributes to their survival and growth (Fuller-Love 2006; Thomson et al 2001). New Zealand commentators contend that there is considerable scope for further...

[Abstract]: The role of SMEs in corporate sustainability has attracted increasing attention in recent years with much of the evidence pointing to the low number of SMEs that are taking up sustainability programmes and the difficulties to engage SMEs in the sustainable business debate...

Objectives: Managerial capability in New Zealand SMEs has been perceived by policy makers as a factor that has constrained SME growth and development (MED, 2008). The New Zealand Centre for SME Research (NZSMERC) has undertaken a programme of research on managerial capability in New Zealand...