ARTICLE REVIEW Guideline

This study aims to unveil the most important factors driving internationalization process
of Ethiopian SMEs operating in leather and leather products industry located in Addis
Ababa. The small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) sector in Ethiopia is a significant
group within the economy in terms of firm numbers and total employment. Thus, their
internationalization will have a significant impact on industrialization and economic
development of Ethiopia. The internationalization phenomenon is examined in a more
comprehensive manner than in many previous studies, through integrated theoretical
lenses
The following are the objectives of this study:
 To explore determinant factors that motivate business internationalization among
Ethiopian SMEs in the manufacturing industry.
 To identify the pattern and mode of entry followed by Ethiopian SMEs in the
manufacturing industry to expand their business in foreign markets.
The author well explained the research and explain how to understand
internationalization process of firms in manufacturing industries. The article have a
definite point of view about the small and medium sized internationalization process and
the article well maintain the reader's interest and the researcher directly states his main
idea/position and provides a clear direction for the article.
3. What exactly does the work contribute and relate to the overall topic of your course and/or
assignment? What general problems and concepts in your discipline and course does it
engage with?
1. What kinds of material does the work present (e.g. primary documents or secondary
material, personal observations, literary analysis, quantitative data, biographical or
historical accounts)?
Mixed research approach of quantitative survey, semi structured interview and review of extant
literatures were used to obtain the required data. Stratified random sampling was used to select
90 SMEs of which 36 of them were exporting and the remaining 54 are domestic oriented SMEs.
Instrumentation of questionnaire and interview protocol was used to gather primary data. Both
instruments were reviewed by experts of international business, entrepreneurship and marketing
strategy and pre-tested on some managers and marketing managers to maintain the levels of
clarity expected. All questions were matched with the appropriate factors that drive SME
internationalization. Modifications were made based on the pre-test results.
The researcher used both primary and secondary sources. As I mentioned before the
Instrumentation of questionnaire and interview protocol was used to gather primary data.
Secondary data used to obtain the required data in fact that much information exists in
documented form – whether deliberately processed or not – means that such information cannot
be ignored by the researcher, and generally saves time and effort collecting data which would
otherwise all have to be collected directly
5. How is this material used to demonstrate and argue the thesis? (As well as indicating the
overall argumentative structure of the work, your review could quote or summarize specific
passages to describe the author's presentation, including writing style and tone).
The collected data were cleaned, coded and analyzed through parametric and non-parametric
statistical methods of exploratory factor analysis, binary logistic regression, Chi-square test of
independence and Spearman rank order correlation coefficients. The results from Exploratory
Factor Analysis were then used in binary logistic regression to examine the impact of each of the
factors that may influence SMEs internationalization decisions as well as to find out the most
influential factors.
The qout of a total of 125 questionnaires administered, 105 questionnaires were returned to the
researcher which constituted a return rate of 84%. However, out of the 105 questionnaires
returned 90 (85%) were correctly filled in while 15 (15%) questionnaires were incorrectly
completed. The incorrectly completed questionnaires were treated as unusable. This means that
only 90 (85%) of the questionnaires were used in this analysis.
6. What theoretical, ethical issues, and topics for further discussion does the work raise?
Ethical standards of informed consent and voluntary participation were secured in advance
data gathering and respondents were allowed to check the draft analysis
7. What are your own reactions and considered opinions regarding the work?
Note: Article review is not answering to the above questions. Rather, the above questions should
be used just as a guideline.
STYLE: The review must be 1-3 pages; typed in 10 or 12 point font; double-spaced with 1-inch
margins on all sides; page numbers in upper right corner; printed in black ink on white paper.
Attach a cover sheet that includes: your name, the course name / number and your program, and
the title of the review article. Attach the final document to: solomon.markos@aau.edu.et .
Deadline: Oct 30, 2020.

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This study aims to unveil the most important factors driving internationalization process

Deadline: Oct 30, 2020.

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