In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 1998 to 2003. The inputs included in the analysis are full-time equivalent academic and non-academic staff, non-labour expenditure and undergraduate...

In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 1998 to 2003. The inputs included in the analysis are full-time equivalent academic and non-academic staff, non-labour expenditure and undergraduate...

Die Internationalisierung von Firmen wird seit langem als inkrementeller Prozess betrachtet, in dem Firmen von "psychologisch nahen" Märkten angezogen werden und ihr Engagement auf internationalen Märkten durch eine Abfolge von "Entwicklungsphasen" allmählich und schrittweise verstärken....

The objective of this study was to explore the linkages between the overall business strategies of small firms and their patterns, processes and pace of internationalization. A qualitative approach was adopted, involving 30 indepth interviews with key decision makers of internationalizing small...

Firm internationalisation has long been regarded as an incremental process, wherein firms gravitate towards lsquopsychologically closersquo markets and increase commitment to international markets in a gradual, step-wise, manner through a series of evolutionary lsquostagesrsquo. However, much of...