Search for dissertations about: "Performance of internationalization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words Performance of internationalization.

  1. 1. The Creation of International Business Relationships : Experience and Performance in the Internationalization Process of SMEs

    Author : Jukka Hohenthal; Harry Barkema; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business studies; Business Relationships; Internationalization; SME; Knowledge; Learning; Experience; Performance; Process; Företagsekonomi; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : The present study examines the causal effect of experience on the performance of inter-national business relationships for small and medium-sized business firms. A case study of ten market entry processes in ten Swedish SMEs shows that both experienced and inexperienced firms can succeed in creating a new international business relationship. READ MORE

  2. 2. Internationalization and Performance among Small and Medium-sized Firms : A study of furniture producers in Sweden

    Author : Åsa Devine; Anders Baudin; Anders Pehrsson; Staffan Brege; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; export; furniture producer; internationalization; perception of export barriers; performance; small and medium sized enterprises SMEs ; strategy competence; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Forestry and Wood Technology; Skog och träteknik;

    Abstract : Furniture production in Sweden still exists on a comparably small scale. The majority, or more than 99 percent, of all furniture producers in Sweden are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with less than 250 employees. Despite their size, these firms are, to a large extent, involved in export. READ MORE

  3. 3. A Tale of Two Concepts : Exploring the Relationship between Firm Performance and Multinationality

    Author : Alice Schmuck; Katarina Lagerström; James Sallis; Mikael Hilmersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multinationality; firm performance; paradigmatic bias; performance-multinationality relationship; resource-based view; prospect theory; internationalization process model; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Despite being a pivotal topic over the past 50 years, the benefits and costs of internationalization are not well understood. A substantial body of research in international business, strategy, and general management is devoted to understanding firm internationalization and its connection to a firm’s financial performance; however, results are inconclusive. READ MORE

  4. 4. Decision-making in SME internationalization : The role and use of Control in decisions made under the uncertainties of foreign market expansion

    Author : Luis Oliveira; Martin Johanson; Carin Nordström; Katarina Blomkvist; Högskolan Dalarna; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SME internationalization; non-predictive strategy; control-based strategy; environmental uncertainty; international market performance; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis; Komplexa system - mikrodataanalys;

    Abstract : Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make the backbone of virtually all economies but most of them are only marginally engaged with global markets, particularly those from developing countries. Our ability to advise these firms is currently limited for two major reasons: on the one hand, conventional International Business literature treats the firm as a black box and does not advance in decision-making dynamics that are critical to SMEs' foreign expansion; on the other, recent SME internationalization studies have achieved important progress but seem dependent on the use of Effectuation theory to represent the decisions that guide SME internationalization. READ MORE

  5. 5. The Best of Both Worlds : The Effects of Knowledge and Network Relationships on Performance of Returnee Entrepreneurial Firms

    Author : Wensong Bai; Martin Johanson; Christine Holmström_Lind; Oscar Martin Martin; Olli Kuivalainen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : In an increasingly globalized business world, international human mobility and its association with entrepreneurship presents attractive opportunities for business research. One increasingly important phenomenon in the field is returnee entrepreneurship, which is the reverse flow of migrants who acquired skills in developed countries back to their emerging-market home countries. READ MORE