[PDF] Top 20 Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs

... 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

... 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

... Regarding the impact of size on performance, the literature points to the fact that size can be a source of competitive advantage because larger firms have at their ... See full document

... as the most generalized type of learning in organizations, and gradual international experience was the central mechanism that conduced the internationalization process in [28] ... See full document

... size and 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 ... 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 ... See full document

... a Portuguese apparel company based on designing and producing exclusive textures with natural ...for the attention in details and the ...2003 and they spread all ... See full document

... to the main theories on trade, the internationalization of economies goes through a process that leads to their specialization in certain products, based on the advantages ... See full document

... downturns and for small ...investment and that this negative effect is significantly stronger for firms with low growth opportunities than for those with high growth ...In the same line, Hernando ... See full document

... find the factors that entrepreneurs consider as the most important for the internationalization of their company (evaluated on an ordinal importance scale with 5 categories), we ... 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

... 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

... diversification and leverage, we fail to obtain any significant relation, a result also obtained by Low and Chen ...replacing the variables XOE and XIE by dummy variables characterizing ... See full document

... more the pressure from the firm fragmentation, when the firm splits between two or more countries, going through the internationalization ...firm’s performance. Another source ... See full document

... analyzing the internationalization process of Vivafit to India, after the first failded attempt in Spain, this chapter starts by corroborating that the company followed the model ... See full document

... firm performance but the level of internationalization has no direct effect on the return on assets, albeit a positive effect on the return on ... See full document

... in performance are based on the external environment of the firm, which means that, a company should first pick an industry that can lead them to have a better performance ... See full document

... emphasized the benefits of internationalization to firms which has proved useful to make companies more competitive in their local markets too (Claessens & Schmukler, ...to the interna- ... See full document

... theory of Jensen and Meckling (1976) has its foundations on the concept of agency costs, that is, the costs arising from conflicts between the agents: first and ... 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