Introduction : the role of SMEs in the global economy / Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear -- Doing business : the nature of global trading / Alan Griffiths ... [et al.] -- Traditional and emergent forms of global trading / Leo Paul Dana, Hamid Etemad, and Richard Wright -- Trade trends in Transatlantica : a profile of SMEs in the United States and Europe / Leslie E. Palich and D. Ray Bagby -- Entrepreneurs and their personal and business relations : shaping manufacturing SMEs' global strategy / Telma Barbosa and Ted Fuller -- Managing with complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity / Keith Herrmann -- Managing the global operation / Tim Mazzarol -- Skills and knowledge needs of the global SME / Terry Mughan and Lester Lloyd-Reason -- Competitive intelligence and the global SME / Jonathan Calof and Paul Dishman -- The choreography of internationalisation : innovative forms of learning and activities of small and medium-sized enterprises in international markets / Jay Mitra -- Foresights, futures and scenarios for the global SME / Stuart Smith -- SMEs in the global economy : policy perspectives / Leigh Sear and Lester Lloyd-Reason.