The Internationalization Processes in the Dynamic Capabilities Transformation of Small Enterprises

Authors

  • Tatiane Pellin Cislaghi tatiane.cislaghi@bento.ifrs.edu.br
    Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul - IFRS, Campus Bento Gonçalves.
  • Elieti Biques Fernandes elieti_fernandes@hotmail.com
    Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS.
  • Douglas Wegner dwegner@unisinos.br
    Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS.

DOI:

10.14211/regepe.v6i3.659

Keywords:

Exportation, Process data, Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Abstract

Internationalization strategies have been used by several small businesses in order to develop a superior performance over time. These actions might be studied by dynamic capability theory, which provides the understanding of integration, building, and reconfiguration of organizations’ internal and external competencies in order to face environmental change. Furthermore, the dynamic capabilities change over time and they have adapted to specific requirements from internationalization processes of companies. This paper was based on qualitative-descriptive research by a process approach. The single case study analyzed the relation between the internationalization process and the dynamic capabilities transformation in a small industry of the organic sector. The result evidenced that human resources management and innovation potential were the dynamic capabilities that most contributed to the internationalization process of the organization studied. In addition, the export culture incorporated in the company reflected the commitment with the decision to compete abroad.

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Author Biographies

Tatiane Pellin Cislaghi, Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul - IFRS, Campus Bento Gonçalves.

Doutoranda em Administração pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos -  Unisinos, Rio Grande do Sul.

Elieti Biques Fernandes, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS.

Doutoranda em Administração pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – Unisinos, Rio Grande do Sul. Docente do Centro Universitário La Salle – UNILASALLE, Rio Grande do Sul.

Douglas Wegner, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS.

Doutor em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul com Estágio-Doutorado na Universität zu Köln (Alemanha). Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – UNISINOS, Rio Grande do Sul.  

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Cislaghi, T. P., Fernandes, E. B., & Wegner, D. (2017). The Internationalization Processes in the Dynamic Capabilities Transformation of Small Enterprises. REGEPE Entrepreneurship and Small Business Journal, 6(3), 584–615. https://doi.org/10.14211/regepe.v6i3.659

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