Yipeng Liu's research while affiliated with University of Kent and other places

... Interestingly, despite the acknowledgement of the importance of human capital for SME internationalisation (Paul et al., 2017;Buzavaite & Korsakiene, 2019;Chandra et al., 2020), there is a persistent knowledge gap concerning HRM practices in this context (Francioni et al., 2016, p. 207;Paul et al., 2017, p. 334). Moreover, of the sparse empirical works addressing these issues, almost none concern the early and rapid internationalisation of SMEs (notable exceptions include Isidor et al., 2011;Glaister et al., 2014;Ripollé et al., 2018;Breuillot, 2021). Until now, researchers investigating the accelerated internationalisation of SMEs have focused either on the human capital of decision-makers or selected attributes of employees, although these have only been at the pre-entry or entry stages (Onkelinx et al., 2016). ...