Search: id:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:mdh-49562" >
Technology Innovati...
Technology Innovation in Internationalising SMEs
-
- Rovira Nordman, Emilia (author)
- Stockholm School of Economics,Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
-
- Tolstoy, Daniel (author)
- Stockholm School of Economics,Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
-
(creator_code:org_t)
- Informa UK Limited, 2011
- 2011
- English.
-
In: Industry and Innovation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-2716 .- 1469-8390. ; 8:7, s. 669-684
- Related links:
-
https://urn.kb.se/re...
-
show more...
-
https://doi.org/10.1...
-
https://research.hhs...
-
show less...
Abstract
Subject headings
Close
- This study investigates the potential effects of product flexibility and personal interaction on technology innovation in the realm of the foreign customer relationships of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The results of a linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis of 188 relationships between Swedish SMEs and their foreign customers demonstrate that SMEs' product flexibility stimulates personal interaction in foreign customer relationships, which in turn enhances the firms' technology innovation. The findings suggest that personal interaction reinforces a trusting relationship and, thereby, facilitates processes by which the knowledge of the involved parties is combined into new technological solutions. Hence, we conclude that product flexibility and personal interaction with foreign customers are important strategic factors for SMEs' technological innovation in foreign markets.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
Find in a library
To the university's database