The internationalization process model: A proposed view of firms' regular incremental and irregular non-incremental behaviour

International Business Review

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 155-168

  Hadjikhani, Amjad ^a   Hadjikhani, Annoch Isa ^b   Thilenius, Peter ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Commitment; Expectation; Incremental and non incremental behaviour; Internationalization process; Known and unknown uncertainty; Regular and irregular behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888434238     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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