This paper aims to discuss the “active” role of internationalized subcontractors. In particular we draw a linkage among their resources and capabilities endowment (also simply R&C from now on) and international outcome.
A quantitative research design has been applied to a sample of 100 Italian small and medium-sized subcontractors. Although no casual relationships have been tested at this phase, we find that R&C endowment of internationalized and non- internationalized subcontractors differs significantly. And that this difference is completely independent from factors other than internationalization dynamics (and, most relevant, from firms’ size).
