This work involves an examination of the internationalisation process of the smaller firm, focusing on the craft enterprise in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Craft sector analysis was carried out in order to determine historical precedents as well as to assist in the identification of industry and firm level factors impinging upon domestic and export market behaviour. A range o...

The behavior of fibrewise localization and completion on the classifying space level is analyzed. The relationship of these constructions to fibrewise joins and smash products and to orientations of spherical fibrations is also analyzed. This theory is essential to validate Sullivan's proof of the Adams conjecture. In Sullivan's beautiful proof of the Adams conjecture [20], perhaps the crucial ...

The internationalization of higher education in Jiangxi Province is not only the internal requirement of the development of higher education but the actual demands of Jiangxi’s economic development. However, quite a few problems are hindering it, such as laggard ideas about education internationalization, low level of staff internationalization, dissatisfying overseas enrollment, poor internati...

Internationalization of compilers and localization of programming languages is not a usual phenomenon yet; however, due to a rapid progress of software and programming technologies it is inevitable. The new versions of wide used programming systems already allow using the identifiers written in the native language, and partially supports Unicode standard, but still have many internationalizatio...

Understanding the internationalization of professional services like advertising, architecture, accounting, consulting and legal services continues to attract considerable attention in academic and policy circles. Research in geography and management studies has emphasised the different organisational strategies adopted by firms as they seek to develop and maintain a competitive position within...

This paper aims to develop a model that assists the international retailer in selecting the country that maximizes the degree of fit between the retailer’s goals and the country characteristics in his initial internationalization move. A two-stage multi criteria decision model is designed integrating the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Goal Programming. Ethical, cultural, geographic and ec...

A phenomenographic approach was used when analysing and interpreting interviews with 25 student nurses in order to describe their conceptions of internationalization. The results are presented in five categories and various subcategories, forming an outcome space. The categories describe forms of understanding, or ways of thinking about internationalization, which, in relation to internationali...

This paper investigates the effects of bank internationalization on risk-taking. We find that internationalization increases bank risk-taking: the Z-score of US banks that engage in foreign activities is lower than that of their purely domestic peers. The results are consistent with the empirical dominance of the market risk hypothesis, whereby internationalization increases banks’ risk due to ...