TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamic Capabilities, Internationalization and Growth of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
T2 - The Roles of Research and Development Intensity and Collaborative Intensity
AU - Fredrich, Viktor
AU - Gudergan, Siegfried
AU - Bouncken, Ricarda B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can benefit from internationalization. However, there is little evidence of the extent of the benefit and its dependence on both research and development (R&D) intensity and collaborative intensity. Drawing on data of 262 SMEs, this study illuminates why some SMEs benefit more from internationalization than others, thereby illustrating an advanced application of partial least squares structural equation modeling by demonstrating conditional mediation analysis with two interdependent exogenous moderators (i.e., testing a second-stage three-way conditional mediation). Our findings substantiate that an SME’s dynamic capabilities affect its degree of internationalization and indirectly its growth, and suggest a positive marginal growth impact of internationalization provided that an SME’s R&D and collaborative intensities are proportional; when they are disproportional (i.e., one is “greater” than the other), SMEs do not experience positive marginal growth.
AB - Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can benefit from internationalization. However, there is little evidence of the extent of the benefit and its dependence on both research and development (R&D) intensity and collaborative intensity. Drawing on data of 262 SMEs, this study illuminates why some SMEs benefit more from internationalization than others, thereby illustrating an advanced application of partial least squares structural equation modeling by demonstrating conditional mediation analysis with two interdependent exogenous moderators (i.e., testing a second-stage three-way conditional mediation). Our findings substantiate that an SME’s dynamic capabilities affect its degree of internationalization and indirectly its growth, and suggest a positive marginal growth impact of internationalization provided that an SME’s R&D and collaborative intensities are proportional; when they are disproportional (i.e., one is “greater” than the other), SMEs do not experience positive marginal growth.
KW - Collaborative intensity
KW - Conditional mediation
KW - Dynamic capabilities
KW - Growth
KW - Internationalization
KW - PLS-SEM
KW - R&D intensity
KW - SME
U2 - 10.1007/s11575-022-00480-3
DO - 10.1007/s11575-022-00480-3
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85134535494
SN - 0938-8249
VL - 62
SP - 611
EP - 642
JO - Management International Review
JF - Management International Review
IS - 4
ER -