An important issue in the divisionalized firm are the relationsships between the three levels; top management, divisional management and the operational level. In the international firm the physical location of the divisional management level becomes especially problematic because of this...

The lack of knowledge of foreign markets is critical for most theories about internationalization. In behavioural models dealing with the internationalization process, such as the Uppsala Model, knowledge and learning have a profound impact on how the firm is seen to approach foreign markets. In...

In behavioral models dealing with the internationalization process, such as the Uppsala Internationalization Process Model, knowledge and learning have a profound impact on how the firm is seen to approach foreign markets. In the light of recent work on learning in organizations, this paper...