Domestic competitor influence on internationalizing SMEs as an industry evolves |
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Authors: | Denis Odlin |
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Institution: | Graduate School of Management, University of Auckland Business School, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Taking an industry-level perspective of how SME internationalization is shaped by interaction with domestic competitors, and by researching the whole population of internationalizing firms in the same industry segment in the same country over time, the paper uses industry evolution and reference competitor theories to explain SME internationalization as a response to changing market and industry context. Three competitive patterns are predicted, and examined empirically, for SMEs internationalizing in the emergence, growth and consolidation stages of an industry’s evolution. Pioneering internationalizing SMEs act as reference competitors for firms subsequently entering the industry, thereby influencing the industry evolution domestically and globally. |
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Keywords: | SME Small firms Internationalization Competitors Competitive context Industry evolution |
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