27 research outputs found
Future-, outside-, and inside-focused development paths
The FOI model developed by the authors measures the future, outside and inside potential of a
country. With the help of the model the OECD countries are evaluated, and four typical
clusters are found which can represent four typical development models within the club of
developed economies
The Effect of Business Knowledge on the Internationalisation of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Oktatási kihĂvások a technikai forradalom tĂĽkrĂ©ben
A számĂtási kapacitások fejlĹ‘dĂ©sĂ©t jellemzĹ‘ exponenciális trend a 21. század második Ă©vtizedĂ©re kĂ©zzel foghatĂłvá Ă©s szemmel láthatĂłvá tette az automatizáciĂłban rejlĹ‘ lehetĹ‘sĂ©geket. Az automa-tizáciĂł Ăşjabb forradalma várhatĂłan teljesen átalakĂtja a foglalkoztatás szerkezetĂ©t, Ă©s már rövid-távon is jelentĹ‘sen megváltoztatja a munkaerĹ‘ keresletĂ©t. Ăšj kĂ©szsĂ©gek kerĂĽlnek elĹ‘tĂ©rbe, Ă©s Ăşj foglalkozások sora jelenik meg. A gyors változásokra az oktatási rendszernek is reagálnia kell, hiszen a szektor hagyományosan döntĹ‘ szerepet játszik a munkaerĹ‘piaci kĂnálat formálásában. Tanulmányunkban bemutatjuk a várhatĂł folyamatokat, Ă©s rámutatunk, hogy az oktatásnak a tár-sas kompetenciák fejlesztĂ©sĂ©re, a problĂ©mamegoldásra fĂłkuszált, egyĂ©ni ĂĽtem szerinti haladást lehetĹ‘vĂ© tevĹ‘ megoldásokra kell koncentrálnia
The Role of Business Knowledge in the Internationalisation Process of Hungarian Corporations
The aim of this paper is to identify the knowledge elements that are crucial in the internationalisation process of Hungarian firms. It uses a two-dimensional model of business knowledge, which separates business knowledge along two dimensions: the tacit or explicit nature; and the codified or uncodified one. This model tells us that tacit and codified knowledge is the most difficult to transfer, while the explicit-uncodified part is the easiest. The five types of business knowledge were measured with a questionnaire. It is non-representative, filled in by 104 Hungarian firms among which the larger and more internationalised ones are overrepresented. Based on this non-representative sample we have found that the organisational beliefs and habits, and the competence of the employees are the two business knowledge elements that are most closely associated with the internationalisation of the firms. This makes it especially difficult to promote internationalisation through the transfer of knowledge, because these key knowledge elements are the stickiest, the hardest to transfer
The Significant Elements of Business Knowledge in the Internationalisation Process of the Visegrad Group Corporations
SME Internalisation Index (SMINI) Based on the Sample of the Visegrad Countries
The goal of the chapter is to develop an index (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Internationalisation Index – SMINI) to measure the degree of internationalisation in the SME sector, and to uncover its most important influencing factors. The index was calculated from a data set obtained from a questionnaire conducted among 1,124 firms from the Visegrad (V4) countries, comprised of 270 Polish, 597 Czech, 113 Hungarian and 144 Slovak firms. The relationship between the index value and the influencing factors was also tested using the same dataset. The influencing factors were chosen based on a literature review. We found that the factors suggested by the literature (company size, company age, ownership structure, innovation activity, network participation and sectorial structure) have a significant effect on the SMINI, but the strength of relationship is either weak or weak to moderate. A multiway ANOVA analysis revealed that three of our variables – firm size, family ownership and innovation – have an 11.8% combined effect on the SMINI