Determining market channels is usually considered a discrete decision made by the expanding firm (e.g., Anderson & Coughlan, 1987 ; Bello & Gilliland, 1997 ; Solberg & Nes, 2002 ). In reality, this decision is often limited by knowledge constraints and customer demands. We find an example of...

Purpose – This paper seeks to shed light on the challenges and opportunities demographic transitions bring about to the banking sector. Increasing life expectancy, coupled with an increasing old age dependency ratio has implications for the demand for financial services. This opens a window of...

Drawing on internationalization process theory, we develop a new model for firm-specific internationalization risk assessment. The model shows that firm-specific internationalization risks can be determined from a firm's experiences and from current business activities in a firm's network....

We study how three types of firm experience, ranging from the specific to the general, influence the perceived importance of institutional knowledge in the ongoing business of internationalising firms based on a sample of 101 small-to-medium-sized firms. The three types of firm experiences are...