Tomasz Jurkiewicz
International Business and Global Economy, Volume 31(2), 2012, pp. 194-211
https://doi.org/10.4467/23539496IB.12.010.2635SMEs have a dominant role in the Polish economy. The SME sector employs 6.6 million people representing 70% of the people working in the corporate sector in Poland. The purpose of this article is to present the problems of SMEs in building relationships with various market participants and in particular the impact of the quantity and quality of the relationship on the economic performance of the SME sector. The study was conducted in 2009 on a random sample of 1,346 small and medium-sized enterprises all over Poland. Descriptive statistics showed that mostly the positive development of economic indicators recorded the busineses with more and higher quality relationships with the business environment. Negative economic indicators of change, in turn, frequently showed businesses with very low rates of relational capital.
Tomasz Jurkiewicz
International Business and Global Economy, Volume 37, 2018, pp. 458-475
https://doi.org/10.4467/23539496IB.18.034.9407The aim of the paper is to present the correlations between relational capital and internationalization of SMEs. Empirical research was conducted in Poland on a stratified, randomly selected sample of 1,346 SMEs. The research results show that a positive, statistically significant correlation exists between the size and the quality of relational capital on the one hand, and export and import activities of SMEs on the other. Larger volume and higher quality of relational capital increases the probability of SME internationalization. The research findings could be used in government export promotion activities.