The importance of experiential knowledge for small firm internationalization has been emphasized in the process model of internationalization, the international new venture or born-global frameworks and the management characteristics perspective in the exporting literature. However, none...

Purpose – To compare the profitability and technical efficiency of firms in a monopoly industry, airports, operating with different degrees of market power and under differing regulatory regimes, minimalist in New Zealand and interventionist in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Unlike...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study how network relationships are used in the internationalization and innovation of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the software industry. The paper seeks to use the extant literature to develop a matrix consisting of incremental...

The economic deregulation, in 1984, in New Zealand was followed by an influx of cheap imports which most affected the apparel industry. Firms which wanted to survive decided to export. Studies the dimensions of internationalisation of those firms. A modified version of Welch and Luostarinen’s...

A review article on the determinants of export performance seeking to extend the pioneering work of Aaby and Slater (1989). Applies the meta‐analytic vote‐counting method to a set of 100 studies of export performance published during 1978 to 1991. Identifies those elements of Aaby and...

To date, most export performance studies have focused on providing business practitioners with set 'prescriptions' for export success. However, this approach has resulted in overwhelmingly inconsistent findings, so there is a need for alternative approaches. One alternative is through...

This paper uses both a survey and a case study from New Zealand to explore the role of network relationships in the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises. These networks can take various forms so we explore whether one type of network supports internationalisation more than...