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

Mats Forsgren ()
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Mats Forsgren: Uppsala University

Journal of International Business Studies, 2016, vol. 47, issue 9, No 6, 1135-1144

Abstract: Abstract In their article from 2009, Johanson and Vahlne suggest a reformulation of the Uppsala internationalization process model by incorporating business network theory and entrepreneurship theory into the model. The present paper makes a critical examination of this reformulation. The overall conclusion is that several issues have to be addressed regarding the relationship between business networks and firms’ internationalization, the meaning of entrepreneurship as well as the possibility to combine business network theory and entrepreneurship theory in the Uppsala model before the full potential of such an incorporation can be realized.

Keywords: internationalization theories and foreign market entry; network theory; entrepreneurship; liability of foreignness; liability of outsidership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/s41267-016-0014-3

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