Internationalization of the Firm: An Empirical Study of the Internationalization of Firms with Small and Open Domestic Markets with Special Emphasis on Lateral Rigidity as a Behavioral Characteristic in Strategic Decision-makingMonograph on international business expansion of the small and medium-sized industrial enterprise with small and open domestic market - deals with strategic decision making, concentrates on the determinants and importance of internationalization as a growth strategy, discusses the product operation and marketing strategies, and develops a decision making model. Diagrams, references and statistical tables. |
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DEVELOPMENT OF THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY | 21 |
LATERAL RIGIDITY AND INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT OF THE FIRM 550 | 50 |
SMALLNESS AND OPENNESS OF DOMESTIC MARKETS AS PRESSURE | 64 |
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abroad activities alternatives analysis behavioral decision-making business distance cluster analysis company's internationalization concept country clusters cultural distance decisions degree of lateral DIMOS DIPOS direct export direct investment economic distance economies of scale empirical entry country environment export operations factors FIBO Finland Finnish companies Finnish firms five most important flow Foreign Direct Investment foreign markets foreign operations frequencies growth Helsinki Helsinki School hypotheses impact important target countries industrial international business impulses international business operations international markets internationaliza internationalization pattern internationalization process Kindleberger know-how knowledge lateral rigidity Luostarinen marketing operations Multinational NIMOS NIPOS non-investment openness of domestic operation and market operation strategies operations MOS organizational learning Paper presented perceived physical distance possibilities posture problem production operations react Reijo Research School of Economics selected small and open started subsidiaries Table theory Turku uncertainty uncertainty avoidance University of Uppsala Uppsala utilizing Vahlne variables Wiedersheim-Paul