The Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: from liability of foreignness to liability of outsidership

This study uses responses from 107 multinational firms to reveal CEO perceptions of the drivers of strategic flexibility during business model innovation. While the positive effect of creative culture is confirmed, partner reliance reduces strategic flexibility during business model innovation. Further, structural change is disaggregated into efforts that either focus managerial attention on core activities or reconfigure existing activities. CEOs perceive that structural flexibility requires structural simplification while retaining control of non-core functions. We find that the relative magnitude of business model innovation effort moderates the effect of reconfiguration on strategic flexibility. The implications for theories of organizational design and dynamic capabilities are discussed.

The Effects of Culture and Structure on Strategic Flexibility During Business Model Innovation

https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/21890351/2018_Internationalization_.pdf

Internationalization orientation in SMEs: the mediating role of technological innovation

The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 15 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic economic research.

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Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses

Micro-foundational ambidexterity and multinational enterprises: A systematic review and a conceptual framework

https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/4b6cccbb-855f-42fc-ba18-0ad78632d44e/1/International Business Models 20-05-2017.pdf

Yunlu Zhang

Papers

SME international business models: the role of context and experience

External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis