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Internationalization Process of Innovative SMEs in Lebanon: An Analysis with a Conceptual Model

Internationalization Process of Innovative SMEs in Lebanon: An Analysis with a Conceptual Model

Maarouf Ramadan
ISBN13: 9781466698147|ISBN10: 1466698144|EISBN13: 9781466698154
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9814-7.ch016
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Ramadan, Maarouf. "Internationalization Process of Innovative SMEs in Lebanon: An Analysis with a Conceptual Model." International Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 333-355. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9814-7.ch016

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Ramadan, M. (2016). Internationalization Process of Innovative SMEs in Lebanon: An Analysis with a Conceptual Model. In I. Management Association (Ed.), International Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 333-355). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9814-7.ch016

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Ramadan, Maarouf. "Internationalization Process of Innovative SMEs in Lebanon: An Analysis with a Conceptual Model." In International Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 333-355. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9814-7.ch016

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Abstract

This chapter aims to highlight the relationship between innovation and internationalization in the context of international development of Lebanese innovative SMEs. The problems of the commitment of these SMEs in a process of internationalization is relevant in the Mediterranean countries in general and Lebanon in particular, but few empirical studies have been done so far to understand their international development (Ramadan, 2008; Ramadan and Levratto, 2011). The role of key factors such as size, age, international cooperation and strategic planning in the international development of Lebanese SMEs has rarely been comprehensively studied. Motivated by the literature that establishes a positive relationship between innovation and internationalization, this study presents a research proposal on these SMEs to bring out certain variables that characterize them. Moreover, the aim of the study is to verify the effect of the above factors and integrates into schools of thought that attempt to demonstrate that the international development of SMEs is influenced by a context that must be identified in the case of Lebanon.

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