Innovation is widely recognized as a key factor in the competitiveness of nations and firms. Small firms that do not embrace innovation within their core business strategy run the risk of becoming uncompetitive because of obsolete products and processes. Innovative firms are a perquisite for a...

In this paper, we identify characteristics of Spanish franchised chains that favor the adoption of an internationalization strategy and those that have a negative influence from a resource-based perspective. Data used were drawn from Annual Franchise Guidebooks published in Spain for 2005....

One of the most important issues addressed in research on international business, expecially on SMEs, is why certain companies export more than others. A frequent explanantion in the literature is that company directors and managers have different perceptions of obstacles or barriers to...

One of the main research questions in the field of strategic management is why firms obtain different performance levels. This paper answers this question from the strategic groups approach. This paper analyzes the linkage between strategic groups and firm performance offering a multilevel...

Market orientation (MO) is considered as a competitive strategy for the smaller service enterprises base in rural locations. A model is proposed and validated for the rural tourism sector that envompasses the effects of MO and of the use of information and communications technology (ICT) on...