[PDF] Top 20 The impact of internationalization on firm’s performance: a qualitative study of Portuguese SMEs

... this study was a non-probability, purposive, heterogeneous ...samples, the probability of each case being select from the total population is not known and it is impossible to answer research ... See full document

... objective of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between the capital structure of Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their export ...our ... See full document

... Regarding the performance of the company, measured by ROA, we can observe that it presents a positive coefficient in three regressions, being only significant, at a significance level ... See full document

... So, the results evidence that the structure of a firm’s balance sheet and the availability of adequate sources of funds can influence ...increasing the collateral backing ... See full document

... age, the more the company is small and new, the more it is embedded in the local environment, while larger and more experienced companies are less dependent on local network (Keeble et ... See full document

... Regarding the physical store characteristics, store sales area influences performance (Castro, 2011) since its size is linked with assortment’ width and depth and the service level offered to ... See full document

... lack of literature on the topic of internationalization of SME’s espe- cially in recent years (Karagozoglu & Lindell, 1998; Pangarkar, 2008; Prater & Ghosh, 2005), but ... See full document

... range of performance measures ranging from outcomes achieved in the product markets (such as sales growth: Siddharthan and Lall, 1982; Grant, 1987), to accounting measures (such as ROA, ROS and ROE: ... See full document

... meet the requirements of national but, most of all, international ...loss of market opportunities, but also to a more severe inability to survive in the long ...its impact ... See full document

... with the previous literature (Ahmed, 2002; Martincus and Carballo 2012; Meyer and Skak, 2002; Spence and Crick, 2004; William, 2011) our interviewees confirmed smaller companies have a greater need of ... See full document

... details of the research undertaken by the previously mentioned studies are described on Table ...All the papers in the table below identified as a goal the study ... See full document

... priorities on which characteristics Portuguese firms should focus ...focus on, the size of the board and the employee’s performance, as mentioned above, as they are ... See full document

... that the traditional analysis of benefits and hazards of vertical integration and outsourcing per se using a transaction costs perspective is ...by the supplier ...in the sourcing model ... See full document

... in the last years because of diverse international scandals ...in the US, Parmalt in Italy, and Banco Português de Negócios in Portugal, among ...for the need for a reformulation of ... See full document

... to study the impact of total quality management (TQM) as well as market orientation on organizational performance on some Iranian small and medium enterprises ... See full document

... examine the relationship in 23 transition economies using cross sectional ...growth. The use of collateral is a common practice in credit contracts between businesses and ...lenders. The ... See full document

... through the several stages of the cooperation process, from the negotiation phase until the impact on firm ...both qualitative and quantitative, and would ... See full document

... their study Bradley et al. (1984) attempt to find what were the capital structure determinants that allowed to find the optimal capital ...structure. The authors created a model that ... See full document

... in-depth study of all the possible factors that characterised the various dimensions of the foreign market; of the client’s company, product/service, and industry, ... See full document

... Based on the data of listed companies in CAC 40, a recent study analysed the association between CG and firm’s performance, considering board of directors’ composition, ... See full document