Adapting the Uppsala model to a modern world: Macro-context and microfoundations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Coviello, Nicole; Kano, Liena; Liesch, Peter W.
• 署名单位: Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Calgary; University of Queensland
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-017-0120-x
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1151-1164
• 关键词: internationalization; ENTREPRENEURIAL; digital; microfoundations; Uppsala Model

摘要

Vahlne and Johanson (2017) present the multinational business enterprise(MBE) as a new form of cross-border organization that supersedes the multinational enterprise (MNE). They offer a 'generalmodel of the evolution of the MBE,' arguing that the MBE evolves through ongoing internationalization processes by proactively and entrepreneurially engaging in business exchange rather than production. In this counterpoint, we focus on two critical dimensions absent from Vahlne and Johanson's (2017) arguments: the impact of the digital context as a defining macro-level feature of our modern world, and the role of the individual as a core microfoundation of the internationalization process. We argue that a robust theory of the evolution of the modern firm must necessarily account for these dimensions. To explicate these impacts, we draw from a range of complementary research streams across international business, entrepreneurship, and international entrepreneurship. We identify research implications for scholars seeking to further advance the Uppsala model of internationalization and those who will use the revised model to study the modern multinational.