ABSTRACT
Digital foreign expansion is important for both large corporations and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of traditional industries. Since the late 1990s, the phenomenon of the Internet-enabled firm has been gaining importance. The internationalisation process of Internet-enabled firms may take different paths and include various stages, among others due to the modes of internationalisation utilised (traditional offline, as well as via online channels) and the order these modes are applied in. Thus, the purpose of the chapter is to explore the digital internationalisation of Internet-enabled firms from the perspective of small and medium companies and large companies, including the stages of digital internationalisation processes and modes of digital outward internationalisation applied by Internet-enabled firms, as well as the disruptive role of digital platforms in the internationalisation processes of such companies. Moreover, the chapter presents the results of a study on the relations between a firm's age, its internationalisation speed, and CBEC adoption, as well as between CBEC usage and a firm's export sales. Following an in-depth literature review, the chapter presents the results of the empirical research, including the results of a quantitative research based on the 2024 edition of World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES).
