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The implications of internationalisation on the management process of the Small or Medium-Sized Enterprise
Van Caillie, Didier
2012In CEFIP-KEFIK (Ed.) The internationalisation of SMEs (still to be confirmed)
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Keywords :
internationalisation process; business process management; SME; Key Success Factors; performance management
Abstract :
[en] In the economic, political, social and financial context that has been a feature of the early 21st century, factors such as the deregulation of markets and commercial practices and the growing interconnection of markets have resulted, virtually inevitably, with Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises having to get to grips with the phenomenon of internationalisation. This challenge is having inescapable consequences on the organisation and day-to-day operation of SMEs, forcing them in particular to make their management practices more professional, especially in terms of implementing systematic control procedures into their activities. SMEs have also had effectively to introduce a multicultural dimension linked closely to the internationalisation of their business to their management practices and processes, and to their way of making strategic choices. These changes are having an effect on the tools, rules, lines of conduct, internal directives, informal practices, etc. that together make up the system of processes deployed by SME managers to enable their companies to be managed with regular and recurrent performance in mind. This is characterised in particular by the fact that they need to be capable of achieving the financial, manufacturing and employment-related objectives that they set themselves. The aim of this contribution is to identify, through a structured framework of analysis, what the implications are that internationalisation may have on the system of processes within SMEs that are performing well. It is based on a summary of the elements highlighted in the specialist scientific and business literature devoted to the impact of internationalisation in the context of an SME. It is structured and uses the modelling of the (non-)performance of the SME proposed by Crutzen and Van Caillie (2009) as its organisational framework
Research center :
CEPE - Centre d'Études de la Performance des Entreprises - ULiège
Disciplines :
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory
Author, co-author :
Van Caillie, Didier  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Diagnostic et contrôle de l'entreprise
Language :
English
Title :
The implications of internationalisation on the management process of the Small or Medium-Sized Enterprise
Alternative titles :
[fr] Les conséquences de l'internationalisation sur les processus de gestion de la PME
Publication date :
August 2012
Main work title :
The internationalisation of SMEs (still to be confirmed)
Main work alternative title :
[fr] L'internationalisation de la PME
Editor :
CEFIP-KEFIK
Publisher :
Larcier, Bruxelles, Belgium
Edition :
1ère édition
Pages :
18
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Funders :
CEFIP-KEFIK
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