مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد گرایش کارآفرینانه و عملکرد بین المللی Sage 2019 – SME

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Theory and hypotheses

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Analysis and results

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Abstract

This article extends knowledge of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) by examining EO in the context of international performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We enhance understanding of foreign market entry of SMEs by taking into account the mediating mechanisms (i.e. networking capability and experiential learning) through which firm EO leads to superior performance across borders. A sample of 164 internationalising SMEs in New Zealand supported the direct impact of EO on international performance as well as the mediating role of experiential learning and networking capability in this focal relationship. These findings reveal the importance of EO in internationalisation of SMEs.

Introduction

For more than three decades, scholarly interest in entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has continued to grow rapidly (Covin and Wales, 2019). EO in the international entrepreneurship (IE) context has recently gained momentum, largely due to the increasing globalisation of markets. IE is defined as the discovery, enactment, evaluation and exploitation of opportunities across national borders to create and capture value (Coviello et al., 2011; Oviatt and McDougall, 2005). In this view, foreign market entry, like other forms of market entry, is explained as a process of opportunity development (Jones et al., 2011), which is certainly an entrepreneurial act (Knight and Cavusgil, 2004).