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Pace of innovation and speed of small and medium-sized enterprise international expansion
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship ( IF 6.413 ) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 , DOI: 10.1177/02662426221085193
Mikael Hilmersson 1 , Firouze Pourmand Hilmersson 2 , Sylvie Chetty 3, 4, 5 , Roger Schweizer 1
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The literature emphasises that technological advances have enabled firms to expand internationally at accelerated speed. Yet, technological advances are treated as a contextual variable and little is known about how firm-level technological innovations influence the internationalisation speed of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To address this shortcoming, we draw on insights based on capability development theory to establish the effects of innovation timing and pace on SME international expansion speed. We test our conceptual model using a sample of 180 Swedish SMEs and show that the faster the innovation pace, the faster the internationalisation. We then address the boundary conditions of this relationship to show that the elapsed time between a firm’s founding and first innovation negatively moderates the positive effects of its innovation pace. Our findings have theoretical, managerial and policy implications.



中文翻译:

中小企业国际扩张的创新步伐与速度

文献强调技术进步使公司能够加速国际扩张。然而,技术进步被视为一个背景变量,对于企业层面的技术创新如何影响中小企业 (SME) 的国际化速度知之甚少。为了解决这个缺点,我们利用基于能力发展理论的见解来确定创新时机和速度对中小企业国际扩张速度的影响。我们使用 180 家瑞典中小企业的样本测试了我们的概念模型,并表明创新步伐越快,国际化就越快。然后,我们解决了这种关系的边界条件,以表明公司成立和首次创新之间的流逝时间消极地缓和了其创新步伐的积极影响。我们的研究结果具有理论、管理和政策意义。

更新日期:2022-05-07
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