Internationalization, Entrepreneurship and the Smaller Firm

Edited by Marian V. Jones, Professor of International Enterprise, The University of Sheffield Management School, UK, the late Pavlos Dimitratos, formerly Assistant Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece and Senior Research Fellow (on a visiting basis), CIER, Business School, University of Glasgow, UK, Margaret Fletcher, Professor and Chair of International Business, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK and the late Stephen Young, formerly Emeritus Professor of International Business and Co-Director, CIER, Department of Management, University of Glasgow, UK

• Contents:Foreword1. Introduction. SME Internationalization: Current Themes of Study and Modern ChallengesMarian V. Jones, Pavlos Dimitratos, Margaret Fletcher and Stephen Young2. Does Entry Mode Matter? Reviewing Current Themes and PerspectivesMarian V. Jones and Stephen Young3. Exploring Opportunity Creation in Internationalizing SMEs: Evidence from Scottish FirmsLucrezia Casulli4. Growth and Learning Spillovers from International Markets: Empirical Evidence from Greek FirmsEmmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Ioanna Deligianni5. Perspectives on the Interrelationships Between Domestic and International Markets for the Smaller FirmMaria Karafyllia6. Learning Processes in the Development of Absorptive Capacity of Internationalizing SMEsMargaret Fletcher7. Clients as a ‘Hidden’ Resource in Rapid InternationalizationSharon Loane and Jim Bell8. Networks and the Internationalization of Firms: What We Believe and What We Might Have MissedYee Kwan Tang9. The Development of E-Commerce and the International Growth of Established SMEs: A Capability PerspectiveAnna Morgan-Thomas10. Core Rigidities of Micromultinationals: The Scottish ExperiencePavlos Dimitratos, Jeffrey E. Johnson, Kevin I.N. Ibeh and Jonathan Slow11. The International Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurial Orientation of Local and Global FirmsErik S. Rasmussen, Tage K. Madsen and Per Servais12. Local Bridging Ties and New Venture Internationalization: Exploratory Studies in Bangalore and CambridgeShameen Prashantham and Girish Balachandran13. International New Ventures: A New Organizational Form?Rod B. McNaughton14. Conclusion. SME Internationalization: Where Do We Go From Here?Marian V. JonesReferencesIndex

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