today the term globalization is associated with concepts such as unity of economies and societies, the merging of civilizations, of manufacturing and trading companies with banks, change of customs’ policies, increase of trading relations, development of cultural and diplomatic relations, worries of developing countries. globalization is in the best interests of a country if that country has fu...

Even though international marketing has been challenged because of theoretical and methodological shortcomings, very few researchers have actually attempted to analyze the weaknesses based on principles of theory evaluation. In this article, the author examines two types of models addressing the individual rirm's internationalization process. A theory evaluation is performed based on the explan...

Bobby is a software product that automatically evaluates the accessibility of a Web site according to the guidelines promoted by the W3C. The internationalization of this software poses a series of challenges to support international web sites to evaluate, to incorporate international design and evaluation guidelines, and to produce evaluation reports that can be read by an international reader...

Abstract: In the context of internationalization, we study the impact of a firm’s breadth and depth on its performance using quantile regression. Quantile regression allows us to study the effects of internationalization on performance at various quantiles of conditional performance distribution. Our results suggest that breadth (measured by the number of foreign countries where a firm has dire...

The internationalization of firms has reached levels never seen before. As a consequence and in order to face the new competitive challenges of globalized markets, industrial small and medium-sized enterprises must be able to adapt to new organizational approaches, to innovate and to further develop their networks. Based on a case study, this chapter reviews the literature on internationalizati...

Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to internationalize, even if that is the ultimate goal of the firm. We explore two avenues to internationalize new ventures, a direct path descri...

The paper presents the results of a new survey on the international activities of Norwegian enterprises in the service industries. The survey focuses on three main internationalization channels: international sales, international cooperation and R&D outsourcing. The empirical analysis studies the relevance of these channels, and investigates the related strategies, objectives and determinants. ...

Character internationalization poses difficult problems for database management systems because they must address user (stored) data, source code, and metadata. The revised (1992) standard for database language SQL is one of the first standards to address internationalization in a significant way. DEC Rdb is one of the few Digital products that has a complete internationalization (Asian) implem...

This article adds to the debate on internationalization competences of SMEs. After an examination of the most influential papers, we systematically discuss the role of individual and organizational competence gaps before and during the internationalization phase. In more detail, we raise the question what kinds of competences gaps hinder SMEs to go international and what competence gaps arise d...

This paper introduces a novel application in bibliometrics of the barycenter method. Using places of publication barycenters, we measure internationalization of book publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Based on 2002-2011 data for Flanders, Belgium, we demonstrate how the geographic center of weight of book publishing is different for the Social Sciences than for the Humanities. Wh...