Knowledge and capabilities: what are their roles in international business of SMEs?

Nave, Edgar; Ferreira, João José de Matos

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Knowledge and capabilities: what are their roles in international business of SMEs?

2023-04-04Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Nave, Edgar
dc.contributor.author	Ferreira, João José de Matos
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-28T08:59:51Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-28T08:59:51Z
dc.date.issued	2023-04-04
dc.description.abstract	Engaging in international business (IB) is a particular challenge to small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), representing a condition to ensure growth and longevity. Due to their limitations of tangible resources, these companies make use of their levels of knowledge and capabilities to reach new markets. This study seeks to ascertain the role, the typologies of the knowledge and capabilities required for access to IB, and how benefits may arise for SMEs from their international experience. To achieve these objectives, the authors ground the insights on a qualitative study that gathered data from ten semi-structured interviews with leading entrepreneurs engaged in IB. The data were analysed resorting to the QSR Nvivo software. The results demonstrate how (1) knowledge and the development of dynamic capabilities all represent determinant facets to engaging in IB and that (2) the knowledge and learning capabilities acquired and developed in IB context also result in positive returns in domestic markets. Despite the rising of IB studies, the interaction between knowledge and capabilities from the perspective of accessing international markets has not received attention enough from scholars. The authors argue that both constructs must act together to reach and maximize the IB of SMEs and provide evidence that engagement abroad brings several other advantages beyond economic returns	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Nave, E., & Ferreira, J. (2023). Knowledge and capabilities: what are their roles in international business of SMEs?. EuroMed Journal of Business.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1108/EMJB-09-2022-0175	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/13403
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Emerald	pt_PT
dc.relation	Research Unit in Business Sciences
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	International business	pt_PT
dc.subject	Knowledge	pt_PT
dc.subject	Dynamic capabilities	pt_PT
dc.subject	Learning capabilities	pt_PT
dc.subject	Internationalisation	pt_PT
dc.title	Knowledge and capabilities: what are their roles in international business of SMEs?	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.title	EuroMed Journal of Business	pt_PT
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