Moroccan’s trade deficit has worsened the last ten years. Actually, it stands at 42,3 billion dirhams. The aim of this study is to examine that export performance of Moroccan SMEs depend mainly on the managerial practices of their managers, more than the exogenous factors. Morocco is an...

This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and export performance of firms in a developing country context. Theoretical and empirical studies in advanced economies underline the significance of local knowledge spillovers for innovation. However, not much...

With the unpredictable business environment, unstable economic conditions and worldwide integration of markets, internationalization activities have become an important way to Moroccan SMEs development and a big challenge for the national agency for SMEs promotion (NAPSME). Despite the...

The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused problems for Indonesian SMEs, in terms of supply chain and changes in their markets' demand. SMEs cannot survive only by exploiting their existing businesses, but also by trying to explore new opportunities and ways of doing business. SMEs...

The resource-based view clarifies to what extent organizational resources affect strategic performance differentials among firms. The resource-based view (RBV) assumes that firms are administrative organizations involving collections of physical (human) and intangible assets or, synonymously,...