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Learning in the Internationalization Process of Firms (New Horizons in International Business) »

Authors: Anders Blomstermo (Editor), D. Deo Sharma
ISBN-13: 9781840646627, ISBN-10: 1840646624
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elgar, Edward Publishing, Inc.
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
Pt. 1	The Internationalisation Process of Firms
1	Building a Model of Firm Internationalisation	3
2	Three Decades of Research on the Internationalisation Process of Firms	16
3	The Role of Knowledge in Firms' Internationalisation Process: Wherefrom and Whereto?	36
4	Collaborative Experience in Internationalising Firms	56
Pt. 2	Knowledge Accumulation and Knowledge Transfer Issues
5	How to Use Network Experience in Ongoing International Business	77
6	The Usefulness of Suppliers' Knowledge in International Markets	105
7	Is Marketing Knowledge International? A Case of Key Accounts	123
8	Changing the Organisational Memory in Swedish SMEs Through New International Business Relationships	142
9	Depth versus Diversity of Knowledge and Its Influence on the Integration of Foreign Business Network Relationships	157
10	Product Complexity and Knowledge Translation in the Internationalisation Process of Firms: An Integrative Model	175
Pt. 3	Foreign Market Entry Issues
11	Co-operating to Compete Internationally: The Case of a Joint Action Group in the Telecommunications Industry in New Zealand	193
12	Knowledge Translation in the Internationalisation Process of the Hyundai Motor Company	212
13	Korean Firms' Knowledge Translation to the Polish Market: Three Cases	232
14	Internationalisation of SMEs: Two Case Studies of Finnish Born Global Firms	258
	Index	281