. . . . . . "[3FDA2CA77B4A]" . "Researching the Interantionalisation of SMEs"@cs . "Researching the Internationalisation of SME's in the Czech Republic: Some Initial considerations" . "RIV/00216305:26510/02:PU33668" . "Internationalisation, SME's, czech Republik, research"@en . "2"^^ . "2002" . . "26510" . "Although some would argue otherwise, the importance of SMEs for a country's economic development has been widely recognised in the academic literature and elsewhere. SMEs provide much by way of innovation and employment opportunities for a country's citizens, in addition to forming an important source of domestic wealth creation and a thriving domestic business sector. In particular, transformation economies depend on SMEs for economic growth, the generation of a vigorous private sector to replace or restructure former state-owned firms and in engagement with global markets. Successful domestic SMEs also have the effect of balancing - in part at least - FDI inflows through investment by foreign-owned firms. Following a discussion of SME activity in transformation economies, this paper addresses relevant theoretical aspects of internationalisation and addresses particular aspects of Czech SME development as an example of transformation economy SME internationalisation. This paper also sets the fou"@en . "2"^^ . "1" . . "RIV/00216305:26510/02:PU33668!RIV07-GA0-26510___" . "P(GA402/02/0106)" . "10"^^ . "Pollard, David" . "662171" . "LT - Litevsk\u00E1 republika" . "\u010Cl\u00E1nek se zab\u00FDv\u00E1 interancionalizaci mal\u00FDch a st\u0159edn\u00EDch firem v \u010Cesk\u00E9 repulice."@cs . "Researching the Internationalisation of SME's in the Czech Republic: Some Initial considerations" . "Pollard, David" . "Researching the Interantionalisation of SMEs"@cs . "Although some would argue otherwise, the importance of SMEs for a country's economic development has been widely recognised in the academic literature and elsewhere. SMEs provide much by way of innovation and employment opportunities for a country's citizens, in addition to forming an important source of domestic wealth creation and a thriving domestic business sector. In particular, transformation economies depend on SMEs for economic growth, the generation of a vigorous private sector to replace or restructure former state-owned firms and in engagement with global markets. Successful domestic SMEs also have the effect of balancing - in part at least - FDI inflows through investment by foreign-owned firms. Following a discussion of SME activity in transformation economies, this paper addresses relevant theoretical aspects of internationalisation and addresses particular aspects of Czech SME development as an example of transformation economy SME internationalisation. This paper also sets the fou" . . "Researching the Internationalisation of SME's in the Czech Republic: Some Initial considerations"@en . . "\u0160imberov\u00E1, Iveta" . "Researching the Internationalisation of SME's in the Czech Republic: Some Initial considerations"@en . . "Transformations in Business&Economics" . "1648-4460" . "25-35" . . . . . .