[PDF] Top 20 Internationalization effects on financial performance: The case of Portuguese industrial SMEs

... – the moderating effect of age on internationalization – means that the positive impact of internationalization on performance is greater for young- er ... See full document

... nature of the relationship between institutional difference and profitability calls for major attention to these effects by ...implication of our results is that policymakers should focus ... See full document

... based on Tobin’s Q, developed by Fazzari et al. (1988), has the advantage of capturing the market’s valuation of the firm’s investment opportunities, yet that approach is not ... See full document

... level of divergence in the internationalization literature regarding influential factors we can now make few ...observations. The fact that the concepts treated as influential factors ... See full document

... detail the development of these theories and all the reformulations and critiques they have originated (which still prevail in most international economics textbooks), but to show how the ... See full document

... corporate performance as measured by shareholder return and growth in ...current performance, entrepreneurial ability, managerial responsibility, firm size and past performance may motivate them to ... See full document

... influence on the firm’s international expansion strategy. At the beginning of this stage, the firm did not predict having such a strong expansion ...overall. The broad expansion ... See full document

... consensus of previous research is that international diversification is related to the capital structure of firms, although without agreeing on the direction of the ... 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

... After the collected data from 30 senior HR managers and 17 trade union officials, they came up with the results about the HR practices that were implemented in response for the Irish economic ... 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

... destinations, the investigator was able to prove that bilateral exports have risen by approximately 6-10% for each additional consulate abroad, controlling for a host of other features including reverse ... See full document

... studies on samples of SMEs have revealed the existence of a “liability of foreignness” at the beginning of the internationalization process via FDI ... See full document

... much of the literature on Born Global firms we find some support for our hypothesis that firm performance is positively correlated to internationalization, in particular when this ... See full document

... replacing the variables XOE and XIE by dummy variables characterizing the export-oriented firms yielded similar results, that is, the absence of a clear relation between export destination ... 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

... “means of gathering information to achieve results that cannot certainly be measured by or translated into numbers” (Berg, ...with the population to be analyzed and allow, in this way, understanding ... See full document

... in the survey, respondents were also asked whether they considered their firm to innovate (in general ...did. Of these, 164 chose some sources of innovation from a given ...list. The two most ... See full document

... investigate the impact in the economy of regulatory changes on loan-to-deposit ratios by exploring a rich database (Central Balance Sheet) that contains general data of the firms ... See full document

... to the importance of knowledge in Network ...perspective on this theory and that fits into the so- called Attention Based ...View. The established networks contribute effectively to ... See full document