Linking knowledge and internationalization in small and medium-sized enterprises in the ICT sector

Technovation

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 591-601

  Saarenketo, Sami ^a   Puumalainen, Kaisu ^a   Kyläheiko, Kalevi ^a   Kuivalainen, Olli ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

ICT; Internationalization; Knowledge based view; SMEs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

APPROPRIABILITY; ASSET SPECIFICITY; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; ELSEVIER (CO); ENTRY MODE; FINNISH (CO); FUTURE RESEARCH; ICT SECTOR; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ITC); KEY ELEMENTS; KNOWLEDGE ASSETS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED; SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE (SME); STRATEGY RESEARCH; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS (TCE);

ECONOMICS;

EID: 47549117042     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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