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Internationalisation of SMEs from the perspective of social learning theory

机译:社会学习理论视野下的中小企业国际化

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Internationalisation is seen as an important issue for the globalised economy. Therefore, it has been widely investigated among multinational enterprises and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Even though earlier work acknowledges that internationalisation consists of entrepreneurial actions (e.g. discovery and exploitation of an international business opportunity) and learning from the market, detailed understanding of the process of social learning in internationalisation is still lacking. In this study, we use the cycle of expansive learning as a conceptual framework. It shows that entrepreneurial actions between SMEs construct international business opportunities. More specifically, entrepreneurial actions are about learning that constructs and co-creates knowledge. The cycle of expansive learning assumes that such knowledge is social in nature making the very nature of knowledge the basis of claims to explicate what the process of social learning entails. In the context of international entrepreneurship, there is also a by-product of that type of co-created and object-oriented action: the internationalisation of SMEs. The purpose of this study is to explore the internationalisation of SMEs through the cycle of expansive learning to better understand how such a by-product can be created. In examining a story of collaboration between two entrepreneurs, we found the start of the cycle to be more significant than the later stages. From the perspective of social learning, this suggests that entrepreneurs create meanings rather than exploit international opportunities in the business-sense alone. That said, internationalisation happens as a by-product of social acting.
机译:国际化被视为全球化经济的重要问题。因此,已经在跨国企业和中小型企业(SME)中进行了广泛的调查。尽管早期的工作承认国际化包括企业家行为(例如发现和利用国际商机)和从市场中学习,但仍然缺乏对国际化中社会学习过程的详细了解。在这项研究中,我们使用扩展学习的周期作为概念框架。它表明中小型企业之间的企业家行为构成了国际商机。更具体地说,企业家行为是关于构建和共同创造知识的学习。扩展学习的周期假设这种知识本质上是社会性的,因此将知识的本质作为要求的基础,以阐明社会性学习的过程。在国际企业家精神的背景下,这种共同创建和面向对象的行动的副产品是:中小企业的国际化。这项研究的目的是通过广泛学习的循环来探索中小企业的国际化,以更好地理解如何产生这种副产品。通过研究两个企业家之间的合作故事,我们发现周期的开始比后期更重要。从社会学习的角度来看,这表明企业家创造意义而不是仅仅在商业意义上利用国际机会。也就是说,国际化是社会行为的副产品。

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