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SMEs in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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SMEs in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
Series: The Globalization of the World Economy series
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The purpose of this volume is to bring together the leading
scholarly papers about how globalization has impacted the role of
SMEs. In fact, globalization has affected SMEs in two major ways.
The first has been to facilitate the transnational activities of
SMEs. Transnational activities, ranging from exports to foreign
direct investment to participating in global value chains have
become easier as a result of globalization. The second impact of
globalization has been to shift the source of competitiveness
towards knowledge-based economic activity, which has led to an
increased role for SMEs. The first section of this volume examines
how globalization has affected the role of SMEs in the economy. The
second section of the volume is devoted to global strategies by
SMEs The third section focuses on an important type of global
activity of SMEs, which involves foreign direct investment. The
fourth section focuses on the role of clusters and networks in
generating SME competitiveness in global markets. SME export
strategies and performance is analyzed in Section Five. Section Six
examines the impact that the international mobility of labour has
had on SMEs. The seventh section focuses on the role that SMEs play
in transnational technology transfer. Section Eight is devoted to
SMEs in the context of developing countries. In the final section
of the volume policy issues are raised. This includes identifying
how policy needs to address barriers to internationalization
confronting SMEs.
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