What and how do SMEs gain by going international? A longitudinal investigation of financial and intellectual resource growthTools Li, Lei, Li, Dan, Goerzen, Anthony and Shi, Weilei (Stone) (2018) What and how do SMEs gain by going international? A longitudinal investigation of financial and intellectual resource growth. Journal of World Business . ISSN 1090-9516 (In Press)
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.07.001
AbstractThis study examines the accumulation of financial and intellectual resources of U.S.-based biopharmaceutical SMEs. We find that internationalized SMEs experience better financial resource growth than domestic market-focused SMEs only in the long run. While international expansion per se does not enable SMEs to accumulate more intellectual resources than via domestic expansion, it exerts a positive impact over time for SMEs with strong alliance capabilities. Moreover, we show that alliance capabilities are more important than in-house technological capabilities for key resource accumulation of internationalized SMEs over time. Our results infer that SMEs gain the benefits of resource exploration via international expansion.
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