Performance and internationalization effects of the use of ICT in diversified companies

Omar León (), Juan Ignacio Igartua () and Jaione Ganzarain ()
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Omar León: Compensar Unipanamericana fundación Universitaria Bogota, Colombia, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5554-8215
Juan Ignacio Igartua: Mondragon Unibertsitatea Mondragon, Pais Vasco, Spain, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7039-4629
Jaione Ganzarain: Mondragon Unibertsitatea Mondragon, Pais Vasco, Spain, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6144-636X

Small Business International Review, 2018, vol. 2, issue 1, 16-28

Abstract: The relationship between Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and business performance has been a topic of great importance for academics from different areas for several decades. In this sense, this study analyzes the impact of the use of ICT on the diversification strategy of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). From a sample of 95 companies in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, it is evident that diversified companies show a higher level of use of ICTs and that this resource affects positively the degree of international diversification and business performance. For the descriptive and correlational statistical analysis of the variables, the SPSS software version 21 was used

Keywords: ICT; diversification; internationalization; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 M16 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.26784/sbir.v2i1.22

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