Industrial business associations improving the internationalisation of SMEs with digital platforms: A design science research approach
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Highlights：
• SMEs have limited information management capability that hinder their internationalisation strategies.
• Business associations could support the information management and collaboration of SMEs with digital platforms.
• The current literature on digital platforms shows the need for developing more direct design knowledge.
• A design science research approach is adopted to develop design propositions following the CIMO-logic.
• The design propositions are for digital platforms to support different types of generative mechanisms of social interaction.
摘要
•SMEs have limited information management capability that hinder their internationalisation strategies.•Business associations could support the information management and collaboration of SMEs with digital platforms.•The current literature on digital platforms shows the need for developing more direct design knowledge.•A design science research approach is adopted to develop design propositions following the CIMO-logic.•The design propositions are for digital platforms to support different types of generative mechanisms of social interaction.
论文关键词：Digital platforms,Design science research,CIMO-logic,Internationalisation of SMEs,Industrial business associations,Collaborative networks
论文评审过程：Received 1 May 2019, Revised 6 December 2019, Accepted 6 January 2020, Available online 6 March 2020, Version of Record 6 March 2020.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102070
