This study aimed to characterize the factors affecting the
entrepreneurs' decisions during the internationalization process of
medium-sized firms in Syria, and to disclosure the implications of
the differences about the motives and gains from work
ing
internationally through a comparison between internationalized
and non-internationalized firms. The sample comprised of (35)
firms in Damascus and its countryside, which are working in
industrial and commercial sectors. The sample consists of (17)
internationalized firms and (18) non-internationalized. The
researcher has used the "descriptive analytical method" and taken
of the "case study" as a procedural framework, and developed a
questionnaire especially for this purpose based on scale previously
applied in the study of internationalization of Egyptian companies.
