SME Survival: The Impact of Internationalization, Technology Resources, and Alliances
研究了国际化对韩国中小企业生存的影响，发现销售国际化提升生存概率，技术资源无直接作用但调节国际化与生存的关系，研发联盟直接促进生存。
This research examines the impact of internationalization on small and medium enterprise (SME) survival, and the direct and moderating effects of technology resources and research and development (R&D) alliances. Our survey examination of 1,612 Korean SMEs reveals that sales internationalization is associated with better survival prospects, suggesting that failure risk does not increase with cross-border sales. In addition, though technology resources provide no direct survival benefits, R&D intensity acts as a moderator in the internationalization-to-survival relationship. R&D alliances, on the other hand, are directly linked with survival but do not show a moderating effect. This supports the liabilities of newness and smallness view that external relationships can help counter survival threats but suggests that the accumulation of technology resources may be more important when firms seek international expansion.