The role of experiential knowledge in the internationalization process is still a matter of dispute in international business research. The idea of this resource-based paper is to use organizational learning and entrepreneurship theory to better understand underlying learning processes and their...

The globalization process stimulates more and more start‐ups entering international markets at their earliest convenience. Supported by modern IT and logistics systems, this option is available for many ventures that become more and more independent from their country‐of‐origin. For...

In our paper we challenge the common notion that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have to adapt to the international business environment to be successful when acting in an international context. Although we believe in a need for certain adaption, we claim that the possibility that SME...

What role do regional headquarters (RHQ) play in the process of spreading knowledge in the internal and external network of transnational companies (TNC)?In our paper we approach this topic based on an understanding of TNC as ‘small world' networks – a concept from the field of social...