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标题：Strategic Orientations of SMES Internationalization: Moderating Effect of Firm Size
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作者：Sharifah Fazirah Syed Ahmad ; Haazatul Nadia Ismail ; Zahariah Mohd Zain 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2022
卷号：12
期号：2
页码：288-309
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i2/12267
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：The internationalization of small and mid-size enterprise (SMEs) has grown rapidly since last two decades for its potential to undertake international business with recognition. Therefore, it is important for SMEs to respond quickly to the changes in various complexity and global market. However, this small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) faces varies of challenges that results in difficulties in business activities and hindering the success within the international platform. Therefore, a survey from 120 international enterprises in Selangor state Malaysia was conducted to analyze the influential factors that potential strategize the internationalization of Small and Medium enterprise. This study used Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) to analyze the multiple linear regression to test three hypotheses on the determinants of internationalization of SMEs and one hypothesis on the firm size as the moderating effect of SMEs’ internationalization. The result from the survey discovered that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and global mindset have positive relationship with the internationalization of small and medium entrepreneur with entrepreneurial orientation to be the only significant factor that contribute to the influence of SME internationalization. While the firm size was not found as moderating factors of SME’s internationalization.