Purpose This paper aims to elucidate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, reverse innovation and international performance of emerging economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze archival data Chinese limited companies 2010 2016, including 11,230 firm-year observations about 1708 firms. In order test study’s mediation hypotheses, a...

Many XML-related activities (e.g. the creation of a new schema) already address issues with different languages, scripts, and cultures. Nevertheless, a need exists for additional mechanisms and guidelines for more effective internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) in XML-related contents and processes. The W3C Internationalization Tag Set Working Group (W3C ITS WG) addresses this nee...

Received: September 2001 Revised: June 2002 Accepted: August 2002 Online publication date: 13 March 2003 Abstract Recent patterns of rapid internationalization in sectors characterized by strong public interest and both government and domestic capital constraints seem, at first, inconsistent with the drivers of internationalization identified by Buckley and Casson (1976) for manufacturing indus...

The main research subject of this dissertation is Open Source Software (OSS). It is an industry-driven case study aiming to understand OSS business in international context. As the purpose of this dissertation is to better understand OSS business in international context generally, it includes discussions concerning aspects of strategies, opportunities and challenges of OSS firms. These firms f...

In recent years, neo-liberal and neo-Weberian scholars have waged fierce debates over whether or not the capacity of the nation-states to manage economic activity has been weakened by globalization. While siding with the neo-Weberians in their assertion that states retain substantial powers, this paper argues that both neo-liberals and neo-Weberians share a problematic assumption that states ar...

This paper aims to determine experiential knowledge antecedents of the network node configuration (i.e., dyad or triad) of SMEs entering emerging market business networks. Three kinds of knowledge of different degrees of specificity are assessed, namely, general internationalization, market-specific, and customer-specific knowledge. The sample consists of 203 SMEs in southern Sweden with experi...

The Uppsala Internationalization model has greatly influenced Nordic research on the internationalization process of firms. In this article, the Uppsala model is tested on Danish empirical material. The Danish firms largely follow a sequential development as regards the geographical dimension, where, typically, they set up in culturally close markets first and later set up in the more distant m...

Most theories of strategic change focus on established firms. Little research examines how early-stage entrepreneurs decide to their strategies and pivot in an international context (Kirtley & O’Mahony, 2019). To better understand Born Globals (BG) during rapid internationalization, we study digital technology-based mobile game development BGs. We found that pivots are mostly driven by changes ...

This research examines how the marketing and research and development (R&D) capabilities as well as degree of internationalization influence the innovation performance of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). SMEs are often considered the backbone of, and hence are of critical importance to, a large number of economies worldwide. A theoretical framework is developed by integrating insights...

The ability to enter the global market has become a competitive necessity for many firms and one important survival growth in era of globalization. At same time, digitalization is transforming locus entrepreneurial opportunities practices, thus offering new perspectives on internationalization. When entering market, SMEs will require innovativeness capability, proactiveness, risk-taking. Howeve...