Locality and internationalization of family firms

Internationalization of Software Firms Finnish Small and Medium-Sized Internationalization of Software Firms

Ojala, Arto Internationalization of software firms: Finnish small and medium-sized software firms in Japan Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2008, 57 p. (+ articles) (Jyväskylä Studies in Computing, ISSN 1456-5390; 89) ISBN 978-951-39-3251-0 (PDF), 978-951-39-3130-8 (nid.) Finnish summary Diss. This dissertation investigates internationalization of small and medium-sized software firms first ...

Internationalization Strategies of Chinese Pharmaceutical Firms

Chinese pharmaceutical market value is about USD 110 billion in 2009, and it has become the world’s second largest market. Chinese pharmaceutical firms are becoming a growing player in global pharmaceutical chains. In this paper, sample firms are selected and surveyed with a focus on effective internationalization strategies and paths, through an empirical research, this paper summarizes the in...

Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

The Internationalization of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms

This article uses the resource-based and internationalization theories to explain the export behavior of Chinese entrepreneurial firms. Based on multi-year data on Chinese firms from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), we show that contextualized resource-based theory can adequately explain some of the variation in export behavior among young Chinese firms. Exports by small Chinese firms...

Merger waves and contemporary internationalization of firms and markets

”The merger and acquisition hysteria in Europe was record breaking. Never has the marriage wave been so tumltous and politically infected as in 1999. But the stock markets applauded.” Further down in the article the development is labelled ”fusionsyra”, and ”merger mania”. ”Bigger is better” is given as the major logic behind the development. Advice to stock market investors is to identify firm...