TY - JOUR T1 - Digitalization, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Internationalization of Micro-, Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Annaële Hervé A1 - Christophe Schmitt A1 - Rico Baldegger KW - digital entrepreneurship KW - digitalization KW - Entrepreneurial Orientaton KW - international entrepreneurship KW - MSMEs AB - Nowadays, we are living in a digitally connected global economy that is completely transforming trade in foreign markets and exposing firms, particularly micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), to major changes and new opportunities. As the use of digital technologies is creating more fluidity and nonlinearity across time and space in entrepreneurial processes, our research adopted a conceptual process to investigate how the digital transformation of MSMEs will support decision-makers in international businesses. Based on a quantitative research design, we demonstrate that the more a company digitalizes its functions, the more it favours entrepreneurial behavior to lead successful strategic decisions in foreign markets. Our results are discussed in detail and we propose several ways to benefit from opportunities arising from the use of digital technologies. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1343 IS - 4 U1 - Université de Lorraine Annaële Hervé is a PhD candidate at the Université de Lorraine. Her thesis addresses the research streams of digitalization and internationalization of MSMEs. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management as well as a Master degree in Entrepreneurship. She is also working part time at the research department of the School of Management Fribourg in Switzerland. Her main research interests are digital transformation of firms, digital business model as well as international entrepreneurship. U2 - Université de Lorraine Prof. Christophe Schmitt is a Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Université de Lorraine (IAE de Metz and CEREFIGE), he holds the research Chair “Entreprendre”, and he is responsible for PeeL (the Lorraine Student Entrepreneurship Pole). He is also an Associate Professor at the Louvain School of Management in Belgium and at the School of Management Fribourg in Switzerland. His articles and books mostly concern the notion of value design and knowledge building for action as well as the development of entrepreneurial practices. U3 - School of Management Fribourg Prof. Rico Baldegger is Director and Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), Switzerland. He has studied at the Universities of St. Gallen and Fribourg, Switzerland. His research activities concentrate on innovative start-ups, the entrepreneurial behavior of individuals and organizations, as well as the phenomenon of rapid-growth companies. He has published several books and articles and, since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been the manager of a business for company development. Moreover, he is a business angel and serial entrepreneur, as is demonstrated by the many companies he has created. ER -