Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs

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Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Luís Miguel
Data de Publicação: 2019
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/2705
Resumo: The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between the firms’ degree of internationalization and their financial performance. The literature about performance determinants is abundant however the relation between performance and internationalization in the context of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from a small and open economy is much less studied. This paper is focused on the Portuguese textile and wearing firms due to their importance for the economy. It is used an unbalanced panel data of 638 firms for the period from 2010 to 2016 and applied a random effects model. The results indicate that internationalization promotes firm performance, in particular when exports are directed to closer markets and conducted by small firms. Also, the presence of a non-linear relationship between internationalization and performance calls for managers’ attention to its dysfunctional consequences for firm performance, especially at intermediate levels of internationalization.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
title Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
spellingShingle Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
Pacheco, Luís Miguel
Internationalization
Financial performance
Export markets
SMEs
Panel-data methodology
Textile and wearing industry
title_short Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
title_full Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
title_fullStr Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
title_full_unstemmed Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
title_sort Internationalization effects on performance: the case of the Portuguese textile and apparel SMEs
author Pacheco, Luís Miguel
author_facet Pacheco, Luís Miguel
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pacheco, Luís Miguel
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Internationalization
Financial performance
Export markets
SMEs
Panel-data methodology
Textile and wearing industry
topic Internationalization
Financial performance
Export markets
SMEs
Panel-data methodology
Textile and wearing industry
description The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between the firms’ degree of internationalization and their financial performance. The literature about performance determinants is abundant however the relation between performance and internationalization in the context of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from a small and open economy is much less studied. This paper is focused on the Portuguese textile and wearing firms due to their importance for the economy. It is used an unbalanced panel data of 638 firms for the period from 2010 to 2016 and applied a random effects model. The results indicate that internationalization promotes firm performance, in particular when exports are directed to closer markets and conducted by small firms. Also, the presence of a non-linear relationship between internationalization and performance calls for managers’ attention to its dysfunctional consequences for firm performance, especially at intermediate levels of internationalization.
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