A note on the revisited Uppsala internationalization process model - The implications of business networks and entrepreneurship

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1135-1144

  Forsgren, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; internationalization theories and foreign market entry; liability of foreignness; liability of outsidership; network theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016185945     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/s41267-016-0014-3     Document Type: Article

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