What is it about?
It contributes to research by proposing the role of vicarious learning from networked firms in the host country to improve their absorptive capacity (ACAP), innovation, and overall performance.
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Why is it important?
This study proposes the moderating roles of the strength of ties with and prior success experience of SMEs in the host country market for enhancing international SMEs' vicarious learning to improve their ACAP, innovation, and overall performance.
Perspectives
This study investigates whether inter-firm relationships can raise innovation and overall performance during SME internationalization, focusing on how SMEs learn from firms in transnational markets and the nature of such relationships.
Prof. Mohammad Asif Salam
King Abdul Aziz University
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This page is a summary of: How international SME's vicarious learning may improve their performance? The role of absorptive capacity, strength of ties with local SMEs, and their prior success experiences, Industrial Marketing Management, July 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.04.013.
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