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Open AccessAsynchronicities of growth: a process extension to the Uppsala model of internationalisation
We contend that the Uppsala internationalisation process (IP) Model offers the basis, yet unrealised, for a process theory of growth of the internationalising firm. From the Model’s origins, particularly in Pe...
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Deceptive signaling on globalized digital platforms: Institutional hypnosis and firm internationalization
We investigate the degree and duration of the effects of deceptive signaling on globalized digital platforms, vis-à-vis naturally formed organic signaling such as importer review scores and discernible inducin...
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International entrepreneurship: The pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities across national borders
In this editorial for the Special Issue on International Entrepreneurship, we inter-relate key concepts about the pursuit of opportunities from the entrepreneurship and international business literatures. In d...
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Small Firm Internationalisation Unveiled Through Phenomenography
Phenomenography is proposed here as a qualitative methodology for investigating how owner-managers practise internationalisation in small firms, and it is applied in an empirical study of internationalising ow...
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Adapting the Uppsala model to a modern world: Macro-context and microfoundations
Vahlne and Johanson (2017) present the multinational business enterprise (MBE) as a new form of cross-border organization that supersedes the multinational enterprise (MNE). They offer a ‘general model of the evo...
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Wait-and-see strategy: Risk management in the internationalization process model
We interpret the wait-and-see strategy as a decision to maintain unchanged the firm’s commitments to its business network relationships. To explain why firms choose a wait-and-see strategy, we propose an exten...
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The role of the market sub-system and the socio-technical sub-system in innovation and firm performance: a dynamic capabilities approach
Organizational learning has been studied as a key factor in firm performance and internationalization. Moving beyond the past emphasis on market learning, we develop a more complete explanation of learning, it...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Government Mandated-Countertrade in Australia: Some International Marketing Implications
Government mandated-countertrade (G M-C) is practised in Australia as offsets policy. Its objectives and implementation have been refined over recent years to recognise the inefficiency of conventional arm’s l...
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Risk and Uncertainty in Internationalisation and International Entrepreneurship Studies
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Organizing the Modern Firm in the Worldwide Market for Market Transactions
To represent the modern world economy, we introduce the worldwide market for market transactions concept to enable us to model the organization of the firm.
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The evolution of the international business field: a scientometric investigation of articles published in its premier journal
Macro-environmental trends such as technological changes, declining trade and investment barriers, and globalizing forces impacting both markets and production worldwide point to the heightened importance of i...
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Small firm internationalisation unveiled through phenomenography
Phenomenography is proposed here as a qualitative methodology for investigating how owner-managers practise internationalisation in small firms, and it is applied in an empirical study of internationalising ow...
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The underdetermined knowledge-based theory of the MNC
In this note we revisit two core propositions of the knowledge-based view of the firm found in the seminal work of Kogut and Zander: (1) that multinational corporations (MNCs) exist because transfers and re-co...
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Terrorism and international business: A research agenda
Terrorism threatens international business (IB) through its direct and indirect effects. As governments tighten security at public sites, businesses have become more attractive terrorist targets, with importan...
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A note on Penrosean growth, resource bundles and the Uppsala model of internationalisation
The Uppsala model of the internationalisation process of the firm has many similarities with Penrosean growth theory but has been limited by ambiguity abou...
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Information Internalization and Hurdle Rates in Small and Medium Enterprise Internationalization
We investigate the role of information in the internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Information internalization is fundamentally antecedent to SME internationalization and is being facil...
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Recent trends in Australian countertrade: A cross-national analysis
This paper presents and analyses data on recent trends in both voluntary and government-mandated countertrade in Australia. The analysis reveals that compensation is the most frequently used form of countertra...
