What Factors do Drive Small and Medium-sized Enterprises from the Czech Republic to Internationalization?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What Factors do Drive Small and Medium-sized Enterprises from the Czech Republic to Internationalization?

Original language description

Increasingly, much attention has been paid to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are important economic entities in each country. With regard to the specifics of these enterprises is often discussed their ability to take part in the internationalization process and are investigated the main reasons for engaging in foreign trade activities. However, there are not many studies that would clearly define the main motives which lead Czech SMEs to enter foreign markets. In addition to these areas, the paper also addresses the question of whether the Czech SMEs consider internationalization as one of the ways to increase their competitiveness. The paper therefore focuses on the identification of factors that initiate the engagement of Czech SMEs in the internationalization process with an emphasis on micro-enterprises (less than 10 employees). Are the micro enterprises due to their specific characteristics motivated to enter foreign markets by different factors than small or medium-sized enterprises? Or is the motivation to take part in the internationalization process affected by the field of business in which the company works? The paper also deals with so-called 'Born Global' enterprises, which operate in foreign markets right from their founding or very soon after that and therefore refute the basic assumptions of traditional phase models of internationalization. In this context, the paper examines whether the 'Born Global' enterprises are motivated to enter foreign markets by different factors than SMEs that engage in internationalization rather gradually and which internationalization process can be explained by phase models.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

CERS 2014: 5th Central European Conference in Regional Science International Conference Proceedings

ISBN

978-80-553-2015-1

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Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1131-1141

Publisher name

Technická univerzita v Košiciach

Place of publication

Košice

Event location

Košice

Event date

Oct 5, 2014

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

000379207200109