The impact of SME internationalization on innovation: The mediating role of market and entrepreneurial orientation

Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs: antecedents and profitability outcomes

“…The results of this study indicate, first, that entrepreneurial orientation underlies both internationalization and service innovation in SMEs, but that the impact depends partly on the EO dimension, as the innovativeness dimension of EO has significant but opposite effects on DOI and SI, suggesting a tradeoff between innovation and internationalization when it comes to the entrepreneurial culture in SMEs. This is an interesting result when contrasted to those of Genc et al (2019), who found EO to mediate between internationalization and innovation outcomes. Contrary to that study, we did not find EO to have a mutually beneficial and enriching role in linking innovation and internationalization outcomes, rather that the individual components of EO predict (service) innovation and internationalization separately.…”

“…One such area relates to clarifying the relationship between entrepreneurial internationalization and innovation further. The two have been found to be intertwined (Onetti et al 2012;Denicolai et al 2015), but whether innovation is a driver of internationalization (Golovko and Valentini 2011;Veglio and Zucchella 2015;Calvo and Villarreal 2019;Weerawardena et al 2019) or rather, if the opposite is the case (Kafouros et al 2008;Zahra et al 2009;Genc et al 2019;Vrontis and Christofi 2019) and under which conditions, could do with further study as the extant literature has found both types of relationships, and the linking literature overall is of recent origin (Hagen et al 2014). As Veglio and Zucchella (2015, p. 139) note, there are studies on the dynamics of innovation and internationalization, but mostly from the context of large companies (see Cano-Kollmann et al 2016).…”

“…The extant literature identifies two concepts in particular that may, in part, underlie and determine the extent of both service innovation and internationalization: human capital (Becker 1964; and entrepreneurial orientation Covin and Slevin 1989). Genc et al (2019) have recently posited that entrepreneurial orientation can mediate a relationship between internationalization and innovation performance, while the study by Bello et al (2016) finds that entrepreneurial orientation and human capital predict the innovativeness of service offering in Indian professional service firms. While the latter study did not account for internationalization in their empirical model, it does provide the basis for postulating on these antecedents of service innovation also in international entrepreneurship.…”

An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

“…Barriers prohibit or create an obstacle for SMEs to implement sustainable practices. Similar to drivers, barriers can be internal to organizations such as lack of resources and lack of management commitment, or they can be external to organizations such as lack of government support and lack of consumer demand for sustainable product (Chassé & Boiral, ; Ghadge, Kaklamanou, Choudhary, & Bourlakis, ; McEwen, ; Tounés, Tornikoski, & Gribaa, ). For example, in Ghadge et al's study (), poor market structure, lack of appropriate logistic, and underdeveloped environmental legislation are all barriers to implementing sustainable practices.…”

“…The plan also needs to investigate external factors such as the economy and government policies and regulations. SMEs in underdeveloped or transition economies will have a different set of barriers than SMEs in a developed country (Genc, Dayan, & Genc, ; Silajdžić, Kurtagić, & Vučijak, ). Transitional economies, for example, do not have government regulations similar to developed economies.…”