Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine to what extent classical models of firms' internationalization process can explain behavior among totally new types of firms. More specifically, we confront the traditional so‐called Uppsala model of internationalization with data and...

In-depth case studies of 4 times and a questionnaire survey of 52 companies show that the mother-daughter structure prevalent in Swedish MNCs is changing. Firms tends to adopt organizational structures ’in between’ a pure mother-daughter one and one divided along product or technology lines....