Internal driving forces to become global are shaped and inhibited by the owner-manager's knowledge and competencies as well as the skills and human resources development needs of their workforce. External driving forces enabling globalization stem from the willingness and ability of owner-managers to participate in global networks, gather specific marketing information and have access to relevant channels of distribution. An entrepreneurial ability to raise funds from a variety of commercial and personal sources also enabled the achievement of globalization and the organizational change strategies that facilitated it. Those owner-managers exhibiting high levels of global market knowledge were more able and prepared to reallocate human and financial resources to achieve or supersede their globalization targets.
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Matlay et al. (2000) studied this question.