[PDF] Top 20 SMEs and internationalization: an empirical study of SMEs in Portugal

... that, in general, respondents tend view their enterprise as ...thought and the results of other parts of the questionnaire as described ...or an indication that innovation may be ... See full document

... change in the communication ...[3] and the constant use of digital platforms 1 , associated to the number of new support communication that companies have to communicate and relate to ... See full document

... sufficient. In fact, given that the models are not linear, the magnitude of each estimated parameter is influenced by the values and coefficients of all the independent ...comparison of ... See full document

... process of self-assessment can involve a significant number of people from all levels and is found to consume a large amount of time; in SMEs every employee has a key role ... See full document

... formal and informal investors, and have several actors and mechanisms to finance innovation, that goes from early stages of the financing process until the growth stage of companies: ... See full document

... point and analyzed whether exports were in fact systematically associated with diplomatic representation ...exporters and 200 import destinations, the investigator was able to prove that bilateral ... See full document

... recent empirical work has contributed to clarify important theoretical issues related to the substance of our research, ...degree of cultural proximity in the broad ...trade and ... See full document

... concentration and insider ownership have a positive impact on ...(1983) and Demsetz and Lehn (1985) question this causal relationship, indicating that ownership concentration should be thought ... See full document

... Antoncic and Konecnik () stated that human resources are significantly differentiating internationalized and non-internationa- lized ...also an important role in determining the degree ... See full document

... review of the literature also indicates that the decision on foreign market entry depend not only on factors studied in past literature which are mainly based on the assumption that the manager is a ... See full document

... 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 disposal greater technical and commercial ... See full document

... limitations of the univariate analysis, Altman (1968) proposed the Z-Score model based on a multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), which allows distinguishing, on a statistical basis, two or more groups using many ... See full document

... leader in Portugal, however the market is very fragmented, which makes it very challenging to stand out from the ...competition. In addition to that, the company had to face the financial and ... See full document

... stages of the cooperation process, from the negotiation phase until the impact on firm ...qualitative and quantitative, and would avoid many of the data limitations described ...phase ... See full document

... used in this study, it was resorted to a multivariate statistical analysis, because in this type of studies that involve a strong statistical component is usual to exist several variables ... See full document

... themselves in a difficult trade-off situation between increasing reputation by introducing more regulatory standards and providing a faster and easier ...solution. In both cases, the ... See full document

... trend in the sample period; although being a small one, it is curious to see the increasing trend in a time where Portugal was experiencing tough ...subgroups, and comparing the average debt ... See full document

... errors in our estimations and, specifically, the suitability of within-groups and between-groups ...hypothesis of null covariance between the regressors and the individual ... See full document

... number of strategies to evade com- pliance, and on top of the list is payment of bribes to authori- ties, showing high levels of corruption among the ...levels of tax, ... See full document

... the internationalization-performance relationship. Regarding the impact of size on performance, the liter- ature points to the fact that size can be a source of compet- itive advantage because larger ... See full document