This paper reflects on the experiences of facilitating and maintaining qualitative research access into a sample of international hotel groups. The existing research methodology literature tends to simplify the access process by explaining it through a number of stages. The fieldwork experience of the authors suggests that the propositions stated in literature are partly relevant; however, ther...

New technology based firms (NTBFs) embarking on a strategy of rapid internationalization choose foreign market entries which minimizes transaction costs and the related risks of failure. Means to reduce the young firms’ vulnerability to the appropriation of intellectual capital are particularly important influences on early foreign market choices. We explore specifically the effect of national ...

This study investigates the impact of internationalization on the results achieved by agricultural cooperatives in the State of Parana, at the same time examining strategies for diversification of markets as well as diversification of products aimed exclusively at international markets. Of the 28 cooperatives to be included in the study, 67.9% returned valid structured questionnaires. The colle...

On behalf of the editorial team of the Circulation Journal, the official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS), I am pleased to report that the scientific and internationalization levels of the Journal are rapidly advancing. As I have mentioned repeatedly in my previous editorial messages, the JCS should represent not only Japan but also the countries in the Asia – Pacific region. T...

Software applications are designed around user interaction. One interaction component is the user interface; the other deeper components represent the applications’ logic and their core functionality. It has been recognized that interface needs to be localized to the culture of software deployment and software internationalization architectures have been proposed. This paper continues the discu...

Highly developed countries, which are similar to Croatia by size and population, highlight the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as holders of export activities and key factors in raising the competitiveness of the entire economy. In this paper authors research the concept of internationalization of SMEs. Analyzing the influence of decision makers on the process of interna...

The internationalization characteristics of two Malaysian journals, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society (indexed by ISI) and the Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (indexed by Inspec and Scopus) is observed. All issues for the years 2000 to 2007 were looked at to obtain the following information, (i) total articles published between 2000 and 2007; (ii) the distribution of...

There are many companies that in the next few years will find they need to start internationalizing. There are also many that are currently involved in the first stages of internationalization and yet most of their general managers do not have enough experience in this. It might be useful for them to know how some general managers, who have successfully transformed a local company into an inter...