Rose Narooz

TL;DR: In this article, a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting industry and home country contexts was conducted, and three distinct international business models (traditional market-adaptive, technology-exploiter, and ambidextrous explorer) were found among the SMEs studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a comparative qualitative study of how decision-makers in internationalizing SMEs respond to relevant institutions in their domestic environment through networking activity, finding substantial differences between the two national samples in SME decision makers' networking behaviour in response to specific institutional conditions.

TL;DR: This paper applied the subjectivist theory and the resource-based view to examine the influence of entrepreneur and firm innovation characteristics on different dimensions of internationalization speed, and found that entrepreneurs' international experience is the strongest predictor of the speed of using diverse entry modes in international operations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis of internationalisation patterns, network social capital development and how these two fields may co-evolve over time and compare well-established SMEs from two national contexts (UK and Egypt) which contrast in their cultures and levels of institutional development.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether different categories of links (core and discretionary) to external resource providers are associated with the international performance of SMEs, as well as the perceived importance of external links for providing specific forms of assistance toward internationalization.