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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Forsgren, Mats
• 署名单位: Uppsala University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-016-0014-3
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1135-1144
• 关键词: internationalization theories and foreign market entry; network theory; entrepreneurship; Liability of foreignness; Liability of outsidership

摘要

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.