Motivating Smes to Cooperate and Internationalize: A Dynamic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367884888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 270 str.

George Tesar; Zsuzsanna Vincze

Opis

This book is the first attempt to integrate results of research studies and practices as an illustration of how knowledge of small and medium-sized enterprises has evolved since the 1980s with the contributions of individual researchers and academics in Northern Europe. It will be of relevance to academics and researchers interested in working c

Spis treści

 1.Motivating SMEs to Cooperate and Internationalize: a Dynamic Perspective – Introduction

George Tesar

Part 1: Entrepreneurial Action

2. From Small Businesses to Internationalized Entrepreneurial Ventures – Some Personal Notes

Rolf A. Lundin

3. Come to the Northern Side – We have a Business Model

Petri Ahokangas, Irina Atkova and Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

4. Managerial Initiatives, Internationalization and Smaller Manufacturing Enterprises: Perspectives and Approaches

George Tesar

Part 2: Managerial Aspects of SMEs

5. Triggers of Substantial Business Model Innovation: Lessons Learned from Swedish SMEs

Vladimir Vanyushyn and Jan Abrahamsson

6. Digitally Enabled Platforms: Generating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Opportunities for SMEs

Arnim Decker and Liliyana Makarova Jørsfeldt

7. The Role of Auditing in Banks’ Risk Assessment of SMEs: A Literature Review and New Venues for Future Research

Giulia Giunti and Tobias Svanström

Part 3: Industrial Networks Development

8. Nascent Entrepreneurial Teams Managing in Networks: Mobilization, Utilization and Saturation

Thommie Burström, Jussi Harri and Timothy Wilson

9. SME-MNE Cooperation in a Regional Cluster

Zsuzsanna Vincze and Peter Zettinig

10. Straight ahead or Wandering through the Woods? - Decision-Making in Entrepreneurial Internationalization

Niina Nummela, Leila Hurmerinta and Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki

Part 4: Internationalization

11. Growth Ambitions and Internationalization Among Newly Started Small Swedish Firms

Gert-Olof Boström, Karl Jo

O autorze

George Tesar is Professor Emeritus of Marketing and International Business at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA. He is an Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Zsuzsanna Vincze is Associate Professor at Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Head of the Entrepreneurship, and holds a position of Docent of International Business at the University of Turku, Finland.