Introduction / Rudolf R. Sinkovics and Pervez N. Ghauri -- The propensity to continue internationalization: a study of entrepreneurial decision-making in Australian service firms / Pieter Pauwels, Paul Patterson, Ko de Ruyter and Martin Wetzels -- Factors influencing the internationalisation...

Foreign entry in retailing involves a large number of challenges. Many have to do with building network relationships to actors on different societal levels – involving governments and international bodies as well as business partners. Another critical part is to understand the host market...

This paper examines how relational capital influences the acquisition of knowledge among alliance partners. We propose that firms with higher levels of inter- and intrafirm learning are better able to achieve superior alliance outcomes. A conceptual framework is developed by integrating the...