Pascal Wild

• Phd in Socio-Economics University of Geneva
• Professor (Associate) at School of Management Fribourg

Purpose Even though extant research highlights the crucial role some stakeholders play in helping corporations understand, manage and mitigate the occurrence of modern slavery in their supply chains and operations, there is a fundamental lack of understanding of all the relevant stakeholder groups and the specific roles they play. By adopting a sta...

Determining when a company is ready to enter a foreign market is a difficult undertaking. The timing needs to be well considered. On the one hand, developing learning routines necessary for foreign markets and creating sufficient commitment among the staff needs time. On the other hand, older companies tend to be reluctant in their learning ability...

In the 2020/21 census, 140’000 people (ages 18-64) in 43 economies took part in the survey. The School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), member of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), collected data in Switzerland: 2,008 interviews (telephone and online) and 36 talks with experts revealed entrepreneurial attitude...

In the 2020/21 census, 140’000 people (ages 18-64) in 43 economies took part in the survey. The School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), member of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), collected data in Switzerland: 2,008 interviews (telephone and online) and 36 talks with experts revealed entrepreneurial attitude...

Drawing on data from more than 1’500 internationalizing MSMEs collected over 10 years, we have found some interesting results for research and practice regarding timing when a company is equipped to enter a foreign market, the role of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), the degree of internationalization, and MSME innovation performance.

Since the early 2000s, about 100 cities are ranked annually as global cities. This chapter explores a frontier research issue dealing with the functional role of global cities in the internationalisation of firms—and of SMEs in particular. First, an interdisciplinary conceptual research framework is proposed with inputs from international business...

Today, newly founded businesses are inevitably driven to start in a digital form from day 1. Moreover, most existing businesses conceive digitalization as an important part of their strategic orientation by developing and improving their digital assets and digitalizing their processes. By taking account of this development , this chapter investigat...

Infographics for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report Switzerland

The entrepreneurial intentions of the Swiss are higher (10.7%) than in 2018 (6.9%) and the same as in 2017, but below the average of other high-income economies (20.2%). However, in practice only 9.8% of the Swiss have acted on their entrepreneurial aspirations (total entrepreneurial activity TEA rate). The start-up rate is well below the average f...

This article investigates the influence of psychic and geographic distance, as well as country and market-related variables, on the preference of high-technology small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to connect with, and settle in major business hubs. Literature in the field of SME internationalization and international entrepreneurship increas...

La présente étude examine le comportement des PME suisses face à l’internationalisation et dévoile de nouvelles tendances. A partir de la banque de données de Bisnode, un questionnaire multilingue (français, allemand et anglais) a été adressé à des décideurs de PME exportatrices. En raison du vif intérêt porté à ce thème, de nombreuses entreprises...

The study focuses on entrepreneurs with their global vision and insight that at each stage of a company‘s life-cycle, different characteristics of the management team are required. It is, therefore, important to recognize early on which skills are essential for the current situation, to act accordingly and to acquire the missing skills. The entrepr...

The Myth of a Start-up Nation Switzerland Results for Switzerland from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2018/2019 (GEM) Despite supportive entrepreneurial initiatives on cantonal and national levels, an increasing number of education and training programs, as well as growing investments in entrepreneurial projects and start-up companies, Switzer...

Key results of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Switzerland: - Myth: Start-up Nation Switzerland - Myth: high number of young successful entrepreneurs - Gender Equality: Further significant differences between men and women - The strong role of families in startups and established businesses

Despite a mature start-up culture, the rate for founding businesses in Switzerland remains below average (8.5%) when measured against comparable countries (9.2%). When a company is successfully founded, it brings expectations of high growth in recruitment numbers on one hand. From another perspective, few Swiss business people give up on their foun...

During the 2000s, China registered double digit growth and its GDP has ranked second after USA since 2010. Most US and European transnational corporations have massively invested in China, and it is more recently the turn of SMEs to be attracted by the rapid expansion of both China’s export and domestic markets. Therefore, this paper tries to respo...

Research has shown that ownership is as a decisive factor in company decision-making and practices. Conversely, the extant literature is inconclusive regarding whether familiness is an asset or liability when internationalizing. Family businesses may be more risk-averse, introverted, and oriented towards their domestic markets, but their decision-m...