ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) assimilate new knowledge acquired as they grow their businesses through internationalization. The accumulation of knowledge and learning by fi rms has been identifi ed as critical to their internationalization (Johanson and Vahlne 1977, 2003, 2006) however there have been few empirical studies, and they have been mainly quantitative (Eriksson et al. 2000; Sapienza et al. 2004; Zahra 2004). Extant literature on entrepreneurial learning and growth has focused on the individual learning of entrepreneurs, neglecting the organizational learning processes of SMEs (Deakins and Freel 1998; Cope and Watts 2000; Minniti and Bygrave 2001).
