Title: Multilocated research strategies of SMEs: choices of governance

Authors: Maria Rosaria Marcone

Addresses: Faculty of Economics "G. Fuà", Department of Management and Industrial Organization, Università Politecnica delle Marche, p.le Martelli, N. 8, 60121 - Ancona, Italy

Abstract: This paper aims at verifying if, even inside small entrepreneurial multinationals, corporate entrepreneurship favours the development of the firms knowledge-based capital, and if it encourages the extension (diversification) of technological trajectories of the various international units (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) low or high equity). This study also has the objective of examining the influence of the structure and composition of a technological Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) international alliance portfolio. Our findings provide new challenges for both theoretical treatments of small and medium Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), for practitioners and for policy-makers.

Keywords: corporate entrepreneurship; research strategies; international growth; knowledge flows; small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; multinational enterprises; MNEs; small multinationals; entrepreneurial multinationals; strategic alliances; diversification; technological trajectories; foreign direct investment; FDI.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBCG.2012.047824

International Journal of Business Competition and Growth, 2012 Vol.2 No.3, pp.237 - 255

Published online: 15 Nov 2014 *

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