This book provides an overview of approaches to internationalization as experienced by smaller manufacturing enterprises over a relatively long period of time -- the 35-year period from 1974 to 2009. The original research on which this study is based dates back to the mid-1970s, when academic...

Front -- TABLE OF CONTENT -- DEDICATION -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Internationalization of Small Businesses -- CHAPTER 2 Dominant Characteristics of Family and Non-Family Small Businesses -- CHAPTER 3 Internationalization Process of Small Businesses -- CHAPTER 4 Overview of Research Cases:...

Motivating SMEs to cooperate and internationalize : a dynamic perspective : introduction / George Tesar -- Entrepreneurial action -- From small businesses to internationalized entrepreneurial ventures : some personal notes / Rolf A. Lundin -- Come to the northern side : we have a business model...