The internationalization of the software industry and India's emergence as one of its major centers is well known. Nevertheless, previous research studies on the organization of software industry in India have not examined several important aspects of this global production network (GPN). Indian software industry that mostly exports information technology (IT) services is integrated into the mu...

Many potential benefits of foreign expansion have been identified in the literature, yet empirical support that multinational firms perform better than domestic firms is mixed. This paper takes a longitudinal perspective and argues that how much a firm benefits from having foreign subsidiaries depends on its process of internationalization. We argue that a firm ́s capacity to absorb expansion is...

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK This special issue addresses the questions: What is the role and impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on the process of internationalization in higher education? How is this internationalization process related to general models of change that are in motion? In particular, the articles in this special issue explore how the use of ICT influences the futu...

This paper looks at the results of the referendum on the United Kingdom membership to the European Union in order to test the link between the internationalization of the local economy and the openness of the local society as factors associated with the Leave vote (Brexit). The paper compares a number of alternative explanations put forward in the public debate after the referendum. The empiric...

In this empirical research carried out after a study of small and medium sized hightech Quebec companies, we show that 1) strategic alliance is the most popular strategic maneuver for high-tech S.M.E.s in their internationalization process; 2) although the majority of our sample enterprises have experienced an international evolution in line with the Internationalization Stages Theory regarding...