As the world economy becomes more globalised, the internationalisation processes of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and family firms have received increasing attention from academics and practitioners. Numerous studies have examined modes, incentives, barriers to internationalisation...

This chapter focuses on critical case studies involving SIBs - launched to address poverty (also in advanced economies) and socio-economic inequality issues - with the aims of understanding (1) the links and gaps between the contests and the structures of different SIB models and the ways to...