企业国际化：出口竞争格局企业规模与出口绩效的检验外文翻译.doc

企业国际化：出口竞争格局、企业规模与出口绩效的检验外文翻译 Internationalization of Small Firms: An Examination of Export Competitive Patterns, Firm Size, and Export Performance [*]. Material Source:Journalof Small Business Management Author: Pett, Timothy Analysis of data taken from 157 small firms actively exporting to markets outside the U.S. revealed that small firms differ among themselves with respect to the competitive pattern used in their export activities. Larger small firms exhibited competitive patterns consistent with their size-related resource base. However, smaller small firms did not exhibit competitive patterns that could be viewed as consistent with their size-related resource base. In addition, no significant difference in export intensity across three size categories was found. The implications of these findings with respect to the explanatory power of the stage theory of international development and the resource-based theory of the firm are discussed. To unravel the complex issues involved in extending small business activities internationally via exporting, our first step is to attempt to sort out some of the ways that small firms undertake export activity. Following the resource-based view, firms implement strategic actions that are consistent with the resources and capabilities available to them. Because firms are heterogeneous with respect to their resources and capabilities Barney 1991, they are likely also to differ in the actions taken to formulate and implement strategy. Baird, Lyles, and Orris 1994 concluded that small firms become global competitors when this strategic action fits their unique resources. Further, as Galbraith and Kazanjian 1986 effectively argued, there are multiple paths firms may take to reach a similar outcome. One may conclude that with unique resource combinations there will be infinite variance in strategic actions. However, we believe that meaningful competitive patterns do emerge from company-specific variance It is well accepted