La internacionalización de la empresa: el conocimiento experimental como derterminante del resultado en mercados exteriores.

This article examines the internationalization process of the firms, integrating contributions from the knowledge-based theory of the firm and the literature on international business to develop a conceptual framework for the contribution of experiential knowledge to improved performance in foreign markets. For this purpose, the structural equation modeling methodology is used to relate the different levels of experiential knowledge with the firm's stock of knowledge and the influence of this stock of knowledge on the adaptation of organizational capabilities to the market environment. Likewise, the work provides empirical evidence relating knowledge management to foreign market performance in a sample of Spanish small and medium-sized export firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]