With growing international business, small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) have been faced with increased competition, but also with
enhanced opportunities. Edith Olejnik addresses four major issues within
the context of SMEs' internationalization process: First, she identifies
the three different internationalization patterns that SMEs take and
analyzes how these patterns develop over time. Second, she looks at
dynamic changes of foreign operation modes and the managerial reasons
for these changes. Third, she derives an empirical classification of
smaller family firms and profiles them using a comprehensive set of
organizational variables. Fourth, she investigates the relationship
between firm-level processes and dynamic capabilities in driving the
international performance of SMEs. Based on theoretical considerations
and empirical analyses this work provides important implications for
research and management practice.