Strategy workshops – typically 2-3 day events involving senior managers – represent a common and frequent, yet under-researched, organisational practice relating to strategy development and therefore provide a natural extension of mainstream strategy process research. In this paper we seek...

The purpose of this inductive theory-building paper is to address the following research question: How does the role of social capital in fostering the international growth of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) evolve over time? It does so by theorizing from a three-year longitudinal study of...

The research question addressed here is: How does the nature of local embeddedness of network relationships influence new venture internationalization? We distinguish between ties’ spatial embeddedness as dispersed or concentrated. We explore local bridging tie embeddedness’ differential...

For SMEs, interaction with the local subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs)provides tremendous opportunities for collaborative innovation which may formthe basis for internationalisation, providing resources not normally available, andbestowing credibility and legitimacy which would...