Antecedents of Accelerated Internationalisation of Polish and Czech Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Kowalik, Izabela; Danik, Lidia; Král, Pétr; Řezanková, Hana

doi:10.15678/eber.2017.050302

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“…Firm characteristics are the determinant factors in the innovativeness of SMEs. Several studies confirmed the fact that firms might have different innovative posture depending on their size (Kowalik et al, 2017), sector (Civelek & Kljucnikov, 2018), area of activity (Aslesen & Harirchi, 2015), and succession involvement (Filser et al, 2018) since those characteristics make them have some advantages or disadvantages regarding capital requirements, amount of financial assets, applied strategies, firm structure. However, unlike those previous studies, this paper pays regard to all those characteristics of family-owned SMEs in a European country; thus, it would be noteworthy to investigate such a topic to fulfill the research gap.…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

Civelek

Ključnikov

Fialová

et al. 2021

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Research background: SMEs encounter more survival impediments than larger businesses. Innovativeness is a crucial attribute for smaller firms to overcome these barriers since it positively influences their performance, competitiveness, and capability to operate in the long term. However, depending on firm characteristics, the innovativeness of SMEs might differ. Purpose of the article: This research investigates whether the innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differs depending on their size, sector, area of activity, and succession on the sample of 350 family-owned SMEs that operate in Czechia. Methods: The data collected in the Czech Republic in 2020 through the structured self-administered questionnaire were analyzed using Skewness-Kurtosis and Levene's normality tests and Independent Sample T-test to find the differences in SMEs innovativeness depending on their selected characteristics. Findings & value added: According to the results, SMEs' innovativeness differs depending on their size, industry, and area activity. On the other hand, the analyses confirmed the nonexistence of the differences in SMEs' innovative-ness concerning succession involvement. The region of SMEs' operation, the scope of their activities, and firms' executives' age might be crucial arguments to explain the differences and similarities in these enterprises' innovativeness. Even though the research focuses only on the SMEs located in Czechia, the similarity of the issues all SMEs face when competing with the larger firms worldwide, especially if we take into consideration the countries with a similar level of development and overall institutional business conditions, allows for generalizing our results and might draw readers' attention to this paper. Policymakers, universities, international institutions, and financial institutions might cooperate to create industrial zones, encourage research centers, and provide education and financial support to stimulate SMEs' innovative activities.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

Civelek

Ključnikov

Fialová

et al. 2021

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“…Innovation also increases the SMEs' performance providing profit growth and competitive advantage, hence, they can gain opportunities to become market leaders (Laforet, 2013). Some studies analyzing Czech (Zapletalova, 2012) and Polish (Kowalik et al, 2017) SMEs indicate a reduction in internationalization time due to innovativeness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hence, due to a lack of financial power, micro firms are more likely to face business failure, that makes them encounter more difficulties to survive than larger businesses. Similarly, Kowalik et al (2017) state that due to having more financial and physical sources, larger firms perform better in innovativeness. Moreover, Acar and Goc (2011) and Petrakis (2005) also state that smaller firms are less likely to take risks than bigger ones.…”

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confidence: 99%

Differences in Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) of SMEs in the International Context: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Turkey

Ključnikov¹,

Civelek²,

Çera

et al. 2020

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Although SMEs make significant contributions to socio-economic conditions of countries, they face many financial, organizational and mercantile obstacles in their operations. In this regard, having more innovative, risk-taking and proactive activities (EO) increases SMEs’ performance, financial conditions and help them to survive in the long term. Therefore, finding regional, national and international differences in EO of SMEs can enable policymakers, financing institutions, SMEs, and entrepreneurs to create more opportunities for SMEs to overcome those problems. In this regard, this research seeks to explore the differences between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of SMEs that operate in different regions of countries with various cultural values, income levels, economic, political and legal risks. Moreover, age and size of firms are also considered to find differences among SMEs in national and international contexts. In line with these objectives, the current study examines two different countries that have cultural differences and have different economic, legal and political risks. To achieve the objectives, 1620 Czech and Turkish SMEs were analyzed by performing the Mann-Whitney U and Moran’s I spatial autocorrelation tests. According to the results of Moran’s I autocorrelation test, this research does not find any differences between the low and high-income regions of the selected countries regarding EO of SMEs. Experience and age of the respondents might be the reason for these results. Significant results in the national context are that EO of SMEs does not differ across the age categories, while there are differences between firm size and their EO. In the international context, the main findings are that Czech SMEs are more proactive than Turkish ones in all age and size categories, while Turkish SMEs are more innovative in all age categories and only in small size segment. However, this research has not revealed any differences within the risk-taking behaviour of SMEs from different countries considering their size and age. The significant differences and similarities in EO of SMEs from different countries might stem from the educational status of the respondents, a considerable number of operating firms in a market, agility, flexibility, R&D activities and sector of firms. Financial, educational, administrative and legislative support needs to be given by policymakers to close the gap between EO of SMEs of different age, size, regions and countries.

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“…Staffing was also found a significant factor. It is linked to the proposition about existing correlations between the managerial global vision elements and the company internationalisation scale (Kowalik, Danik, Král, & Řezanková, 2017).…”

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Requirements of Scaling International Social Enterprises

Ćwiklicki¹

2019

EBER

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The article aims to identify the requirements for a social enterprise to scale internationally. The explicit research objective is to explain which requirements enable to scale social ventures internationally with success. Research Design & Methods: The study employs a multiple case study analysis based on systematic literature review used to identify papers examining international social enterprises. In total six cases were analysed using the criteria of organisational capabilities included in the SCALERS model. Findings: The analysis showed that the most significant for scaling social enterprises internationally are: earnings generation and alliance building; next staffing, communicating, and replicating. Less significant are lobbying and stimulating market forces. Implications & Recommendations: The existence of a strong business model, neutral from market sources, well-resourced, recognised in the public sphere associated with scaling up. Contribution & Value Added: The article contributes by revealing that capabilities for ISEs scaling are varied in terms of their significance. The presented results go along with the observation that prior to scaling social impact the basic operational model must show its viability. Article type: research article

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Antecedents of Accelerated Internationalisation of Polish and Czech Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

Differences in Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) of SMEs in the International Context: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Turkey

Requirements of Scaling International Social Enterprises

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