*Italy's Small Exporting Companies: Globalization and Sustainability Issues DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105542*

of raw materials and generating problems in the supply of energy sources. These dynamics are destined to affect the balance sheets of companies, especially internationalized ones, which risk compromising the advantages obtained by operating abroad.

A further starting point for an in-depth study of the research concerns the possibility of dividing the samples of the selected companies, exporting or not, according to the sector they belong to. It is quite clear that the current crisis is destined to affect differently depending on the type of activity carried out: this distinction would allow us to understand which economic sectors have been most influenced by the crisis and which aspects of their activities have been involved.
