caa a22 4500 445849576 CHVBK 20180317145409.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10843-010-0067-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10843-010-0067-5 Learning about foreign markets: A study of Czech SMEs [Elektronische Daten] [Martina Musteen, Deepak Datta] Drawing on the organizational learning literature, our study examines the role of foreign market knowledge and firm emphasis on technological innovation in the internationalization of small, entrepreneurial firms in the Czech Republic. It is based on a sample of 168 SMEs representing a broad range of manufacturing industries that were founded after the fall of communism and as the Czech economy was transitioning to a more market-based economy. Findings indicate that emphasis on technological innovation is associated with greater acquisition of foreign market knowledge. In addition, our results indicate that emphasis on technological innovation directly and indirectly influences the performance of such SMEs in international markets. Our findings also suggest that foreign market knowledge partially mediates the relationship between firm emphasis on technological innovation and international performance. Implications of our findings from the perspective of theory and practice are discussed. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 SME internationalization nationallicence International entrepreneurship nationallicence Transition economies nationallicence Foreign market knowledge nationallicence Musteen Martina College of Business Administration, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, SSE 3302, 92182-8238, San Diego, CA, USA aut Datta Deepak Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at Arlington, 76019, Arlington, TX, USA aut Journal of International Entrepreneurship Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/2(2011-06-01), 91-109 1570-7385 9:2<91 2011 9 10843 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-010-0067-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-010-0067-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Musteen Martina College of Business Administration, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, SSE 3302, 92182-8238, San Diego, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Datta Deepak Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at Arlington, 76019, Arlington, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of International Entrepreneurship Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/2(2011-06-01), 91-109 1570-7385 9:2<91 2011 9 10843 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer