This paper offers a review of published conceptual and empirical studies indexed in the
main academic search databases, covering literature on the internationalization of small and …

The aim of this paper is to review the impact of entrepreneursL attitudes toward the defined
business risks on the perception of the future of small and medium-sized enterprises …

Motivations underscoring offshoring and backshoring are typically investigated as separate
entities in the academic literature. This separation undermines a deeper comprehension of …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to advance research on entrepreneurial orientation
(EO), resource-based view (RBV), customer (relational) capital, and small and medium …

Purpose–This paper aims to focus on production offshoring and “backshoring” in a
representative sample of 151 New Zealand manufacturers. It identifies how and why firms …

This study was directed towards investigating the critical success factors of SME
internationalization. Qualitative and explorative research work have been carried out to …

Manufacturing relocation decisions are complex because they involve combinations of
location modes like offshoring or reshoring, and governance modes like insourcing or …

This paper explores whether and how the offshore outsourcing of the manufacturing SMEs
creates competitive advantages for these firms. The offshore outsourcing strategy is widely …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine supplier selection among small-
and medium-sized firms in the US textile and apparel industry. For small-and medium-sized …

Purpose–With the intense competition in the global textile and apparel industry and the
uncertainty of the global textile and apparel business environment, sourcing has …