TY - JOUR
AU - Castellani, Davide
AB - PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic and updated assessment of studies on key exporting stimuli for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and to propose a research agenda on this topic.Design/methodology/approachThe authors develop a review of empirical articles on SMEs’ exporting stimuli and outline future research directions based on key emerging drivers.FindingsResearch on SMEs’ exporting drivers focuses mainly on human resources’ competences, skills and subjective characteristics and on the role of relevant network actors (customers, intermediaries).Originality/valueThis paper provides an original contribution with regard to updating the framework on export drivers by Leonidou et al. (2007), highlighting an emerging research perspective based on internal/external network dimensions and proposing future research directions on internal individual and organisational actors and on new external network actors.
TI - Drivers of SMEs’ exporting activity: a review and a research agenda
JF - Multinational Business Review
DO - 10.1108/MBR-06-2016-0023
DA - 2016-09-19
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/drivers-of-smes-exporting-activity-a-review-and-a-research-agenda-C9jtAgIPQr
SP - 194
EP - 215
VL - 24
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -