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The Internationalization Process Model Revisited: An Agenda for Future Research

Authors: Catherine Welch, Niina Nummela, Peter Liesch

Published in: Management International Review | Issue 6/2016

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Our interest in this editorial is internationalization processes. We see it as axiomatic that time is elemental to process. Hence, we labelled our Focused Issue ABOUT TIME: PUTTING PROCESS BACK INTO FIRM INTERNATIONALIZATION RESEARCH. At the outset, process research is about events and incidents and their sequencing. It asks questions about who did what, where they did it and how, and why they did do the things they did. This is not to say that the events and incidents will have happened in a neat, discrete and non-overlapping order at specific points in time where each event begins and ends within an orderly temporal sequencing. It is also not to say that the events and incidents will have been orchestrated by just one person who can be explicit as to why they did what they did, and how they did it. How and why things happen is messy but this does not mean explanation is not possible. In this issue, we will take up the challenge of theorizing about these complex processes. …

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Title: The Internationalization Process Model Revisited: An Agenda for Future Research
Authors: Catherine Welch
Niina Nummela
Peter Liesch
Publication date: 26-10-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Management International Review / Issue 6/2016
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Electronic ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-016-0302-y

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