Foreign subsidiaries acting as "integrated competence centres" is an organizational design that improves the building of capabilities in multinational corporations. In this knowledge-creating process the headquarter uses a bottom-to-top strategy, where the initial competence-building starts in...

In this paper we use longitudinal data from a sample of Danish exporters in order to investigate the dynamics of export organization. Building on previous research, we model such decisions as an interplay between various switch inducing (motivators) as well as switch impeding(costs) factors. We...

The Uppsala Internationalization model has greatly influenced Nordic research on the internationalization process of firms. In this article, the Uppsala model is tested on Danish empirical material. The Danish firms largely follow a sequential development as regards the geographical dimension,...

Is the present investment behaviour of firms acquiring other firms abroad an outcome of an historic tradition and the time period in which the take-over started? As Barney (1986a) points out is the strategies of the firm and abilities to fulfil those strategies the result of a historic...

We refine the prominent of the process by which firms expand internationally - internationalization theory. By argumenting the behavioral theory of the firm (which is the basis of internationalization theory) with theories of foreign direct investment, we argue that international expansion is...