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 - TY - JOUR T1 - The Importance of Global Business Hubs on Internationalizing SMEs: an empirical analysis of psychic and geographic distance JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Pascal Wild KW - business network hubs KW - international entrepreneurship KW - liability of foreignness KW - network view KW - SME internationalization AB - This article investigates the influence of psychic and geographic distance, as well as country and market-related variables, on the preference of high-technology small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to connect with, and settle in major business hubs. Literature in the field of SME internationalization and international entrepreneurship increasingly emphasizes a network approach in which the characteristics and linkages of the internationalizing firm’s network are studied. We aim to contribute to this network-based internationalization research by integrating a further element present in complex social and technical networks: network hubs. Hubs are highly connected nodes within a network. In global business, hubs can be defined as business sites that have a high interconnection with the world economy through tremendous flows of goods and capital. The empirical findings of our research suggest that internationalizing high technology SMEs tend to connect with, or settle in to foreign market business hubs, when focal markets are more distant from their home market. These findings are significant for both geographic and psychic distances between home and focal markets. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1345 IS - 4 U1 - School of Management Fribourg Pascal Wild is an Assistant Professor at the School of Management Fribourg (member of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland [HES-SO]) and teaches undergraduate and graduate students. He holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and a PhD in Social Sciences (orientation Socioeconomics) from the University of Geneva. His research interests lie in the areas of international entrepreneurship, global cities, and emerging markets. ER -