1.2Research Motivation
 The motivation in researching this topic comes out from the reason that there are not many research papers about Greek food and beverages companies in where “The sector employs 26% of the total number of employees in the secondary sector. Nowadays, foodand wine industry together make up 35% of Greek exports. The sector accumulated 14% in 2007 of total investments (including investments in trade and services)”. (Notta, Vlachvei 2010). So, it can be assumed that is a highly profit, in terms of gross profit margin for Greek Economy in general. Also, it can be referred that according to National Bank of Greece report in 2018 shown that “recoveryin the share of Greek food SMEs in the global market could increase Greek exports by €0.5 billion annually and food SMEs that survived the crisis managed to increase their sales by about 10 per cent over the last decade (Survey of Greek SMEs: Food Industry, June 2018). So, it seems that the importance of understanding all institutional main barriers of food  and beverages SMEs is highly recommended by the fact that the internationalization process of firms has been a widely studied topic in the IM literature (Madsen and Servais, 1997) but there is not so muchresearch made for Food and Beverages companies with these main barriers and especially for a country with great exporting possibilities like Greece. According to this reason, the main research issue is to clarify and understand the main problems that SMEs in food and beverage sector face in Greek environment.  Table 1: People employed in SMEs in EU &Greece,Source: 2019 SBA Fact Sheet — Greece  In this table it is shown that, the actual demand for Internationalization for the Greek Small and Medium Enterprises and the funding feature that is urgent, which was caused after the economic crisis of 2008 and after the lack of funding for Greek SMEs. 
В статье рассматривается проблема международной интеграции малых и средних предприятий в сфере производства продуктов питания и напитков (SMEs) в Греции. Автор подчеркивает, что несмотря на то, что сектор SMEs в Греции является одним из крупнейших в стране, он сталкивается с серьезными институциональными барьерами, которые необходимо преодолеть для успешного развития. В статье также отмечается, что восстановление доли SMEs в глобальном рынке может увеличить экспортные возможности Греции на €0,5 млрд в год.