Going global: how smaller enterprises benefit from strategic alliances

摘要

Since the end of the 1980s, the globalization of the economy has encouraged the internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A growing body of research exists on international entrepreneurship, delving into various dimensions of the phenomenon: the characteristics and motivations of entrepreneurs, factors associated with early internationalization, its advantages, characteristics of new international ventures, performance correlates, the internationalization process, and entry modes used by SMEs (Jones and Coviello, 2005).