中小企业——全球化的赢家？外文翻译.docVIP

外文翻译 原文 Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)–winners of globalization? Author:G. Feldmeier and H.Hansen Material Source:Institute for Management and Economics, University of Bremerhaven,Germany Abstract: The globalisation of markets is not only a challenge for large enterprises but also concerns more and more medium sized companies. Small and medium sized companies (SMEs) are more engaged today in the course of new technological developments, new markets and especially services than often assumed and recorded in statistics (Feldmeier, 2006). Especially because of their innovative drive SMEs are becoming an increasingly important factor in the competitiveness of national and regional economies. To overcome the limitations of regional markets, specialized SMEs are increasingly trying to position themselves on the world market.. Keywords: Competitive; innovation;clusters Successful internationalization of SMEs – assessment of existing theories From a microeconomic as well as from a macroeconomic perspective it is important to investigate the question of the concrete orientation of the internationalization of SMEs. A basic problem in this matter is that neither a comprehensive theory of internationalization of SMEs exists (Kr?mer, 2003), nor is there sufficient empirical evidence to justify the assumption that experience from large-scale enterprises can also explain the internationalization of SMEs. Attempts to explain internationalization refer to current theories, which are based on the internationalization of large and/or multinational companies which increasingly evade their national economies through theirs trategic location policy(internationalization). According to this SMEs act in their processes and strategies of internationalization parallel to large scale enterprises and are in a complementary relationship with them in their foreign business. For example,it is implied (in examining individual cases of international