TY - JOUR T1 - Digitalization and SMEs’ Export Management: Impacts on Resources and Capabilities JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Benjamin Dethine A1 - Manon Enjolras A1 - Davy Monticolo KW - digitalization KW - export practices KW - facilitators KW - impacts KW - SME AB - Digitalization is becoming an increasingly central issue for companies. However, most companies, and in particular SMEs, are struggling to engage in a coherent global digital transformation process. Indeed, digitalization affects much of a company's organizational strategy, including the development of market opportunities. Digitalization has been identified as an element that fosters the internationalization of SMEs. However, the integration of digital technology requires investments and changes in a company's internal practices through the mobilization of new resources, as well as by implementing specific capabilities to manage them. The objective of this research work is therefore to examine the impact of SMEs' digital transformation on their internationalization capability. Relying on an extensive exploratory literature review, digital facilitators were identified and classified into three categories: e-commerce, e-marketing, and e-business. Then, a cross-analysis between the identification of digital facilitators from the literature and a framework of SMEs' export practices (the Potential Export Index, Enjolras et al., 2016) was conducted in order to highlight differentiated impacts that can be theoretically identified. The most impacted export practices are related to the strategic vision of the firm, the customization of its offerings, its network dynamic, and its internal organization. E-commerce facilitators concern the supply chain organization, e-marketing facilitators are related to communications and customer relations, and e-business facilitators impact the company as a whole. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1344 IS - 4 U1 - University of Lorraine Benjamin Dethine is a PhD student at the University of Lorraine. After applied studies in electronics, industrial computing, and electrical engineering, he pursued his studies with a Master's degree in Innovation Management and Industrial Design. He joined the company Innovation Way in 2019 in order to complete a doctoral thesis: Towards a System of Recommendations to Define the Digital Strategy of Companies. His research project aims to develop a model to evaluate and improve the ability of companies to achieve their digital transformation. U2 - University of Lorraine Manon Enjolras is a Researcher at the University of Lorraine. She holds a PhD in Industrial System Engineering, working on “SMEs’ innovation and internationalization capabilities” and an engineering degree from the ENSGSI (Ecole Nationale Supérieure en Génie des Systèmes et Innovation). Her main research interests are related to multicriteria decision-making and multivariate data analysis methodologies applied to SMEs’ development, specifically, evaluation metrics of protection, innovation, and internationalization capabilities. U3 - University of Lorraine Davy Monticolo is a Professor at the University of Lorraine. He got his HDR in December 2015 and received his Ph.D. (2008) from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbélaird (France), and an M.S. (2005) degree from the University of Savoie, France. His research interests are Web Intelligence, Multi-Agents Systems, Knowledge Engineering and Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies used to design knowledge-based systems. He is currently on the board of the French Research Group on Artificial Intelligence. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Digitalization and Internationalization (April 2020) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Christophe Schmitt A1 - Rico Baldegger KW - business network hubs KW - businessmodel KW - coaching KW - digital entrepreneurship KW - digitalization KW - digitalmarketing KW - entrepreneurial orientation KW - export practices KW - facilitators KW - impacts KW - international entrepreneurship KW - internationalization KW - liability of foreignness KW - MSMEs KW - network view KW - scaling KW - SME internationalization KW - SMEs KW - support institutions KW - training PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1342 IS - 4 U1 - 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. U2 - 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 -