A research on internationalisation tendecy of SME?s

The growing consideration of international market has determined its importance for scientific researches as well as for national economies. In particular, internationalisation process of SME?e has become an object of widespread investigations going on up today with the leading research centres in Europe and North America. The number of researches from all over the world have tested these leading approaches and developed them, and it is stil a need of expanding this subject due to its multinational and modern nature.The purpose of this study is to examine the interaction of SME?s with international market and factors influencing firms export behaviour. Furthermore, comparison of internationalisation theories and determination of the features of each group in Network Model were purposed.The importance of the subject, and the purpose of the research was defined in context. The interaction of SME?s with international market and factors effecting firms export behavior were defined in the first part.The leading internationalisation approaches and theories and the Network Approach in particular were examined in the first part of research. After examining the classification of internationalisation models the features and internationalisation process properties of each group in Network Appooach classification were defined.In particular, the relationship between the company / indusry internationalization degree and the factors influensing companies export behaviour and the export strategies chosen were defined.