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Volume-9,Issue-2  ( Feb, 2023 )
Paper Title
The Role of the Business Network on Internationalization Performance of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Turkish Furniture Industry
Author Name
Nida Platin, Goksel Ataman
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Pages
71-73
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the role of the sub-dimensions of business network on internationalization performance. Informations about demographic characteristics is also provided.The answers are obtained from a questionnaire which is applied to SMEs that manufacture and export and are also part of a business network in Turkish furniture industry. The research questionnaire consists of Business Network Scale (Gündoğdu, 2015) and the internationalization performance scale (Gündoğdu, 2015; Kurt,2016). In our study,the hypotheses were tested by analysing 160 valid questionnaire data by using SPSS.According to the results of the research, the strength of tie as the sub-dimension of the business network variable predicted the internationalization performance positively and significantly, while the structure of the network and the contribution of the network did not have a significant effect on the internationalization performance. Keywords - Business Network, Internationalization Performance, SMEs
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