Spanish Abstract: Esta investigación examina la influencia de las relaciones de redes en el proceso de internacionalización de las pequeñas y medianas empresas utilizando el método de investigación de casos en la industria del software. Se propone cómo los hallazgos pueden ser explicados...

The Turkish low voltage switchgear sector is made up of several local and international companies. Generally, local companies operating in this sector try to get a competitive advantage by fabricating cheap products , in order to cope with the competition that focuses more on quality. What’s...

Business environment, being in a constant change, needs a quick adaptation to global market requirements. Applying Lean Six Sigma is not only key to survive in a global market, but also provides the necessary resources which are redirected to business development. It is found that organizations...

Trust is an informal mechanism of governance that seems to work in family businesses differently from other types of companies. This conceptual paper analyzes the impact of internal trust on the competitiveness of firms over time. To this end, we introduce different modes of intra-firm trust,...

The global consultancy industry is at the moment a cyclical industry, and in fact there is a direct dependence with global economic trends. Economic growth stimulates an increase in budgets for consulting economic agents, and on the other hand the recession makes global scale companies spend...

Business intelligence and knowledge management seems to gain the attention of the society regarding the benefits that brings to it when this two domains are considered as a whole. The advantage of using business intelligence in order to take decisions and bring innovation to the business, are...

Currency collapse, exchange rate misalignment and macroeconomic volatility, are key vices that pose a significant threat to entrepreneurial quality, prosperity and survival. Following to this, and using the philosophies and concepts of the catastrophe theory we show by means of theoretical and...

Given the national context, but also international economic crisis, businesses are seeking the highest returns. Why would a business franchise win a bet? Because franchising is the most dynamic and powerful method practiced for business development and economic opportunity and the franchisee has...

Notwithstanding the growing body of research on headquarters–subsidiary relationships, the conditions under which subsidiary autonomy leads to enhanced subsidiary performance is still a subject of debate. This study adopts a contingency approach and investigates the effects of external...

This research studies the impact of networks on SME´s international process using a case study methodology in the software industry. We analyze how findings can be explained by using the Uppsala bInternationalization model, the network model of internationalization and the international new...