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Can Uppsala Model Explain the Internationalisation of Central European SMEs?
European Journal of Business Science and Technology
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Can Uppsala Model Explain the Internationalisation of Central European SMEs?
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Tuzová, Marcela
Toulová, Martina Straka, Jakub Kubíčková, Lea |
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The aim of this paper is to scrutinize some aspects of the Uppsala model whose applicability for SMEs' internationalisation is often questioned. This model explains internationalisation as a sequential process based on learning in which an enterprise increases its international commitment in incremental steps (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977). The assumptions of Uppsala model are discussed in conditions of SMEs from different countries, namely the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria and Germany. The paper is based on primary data obtained by questionnaire survey performed in 2014. Respondents were small and medium-sized firms from the above mentioned countries. Following assumptions are scrutinized: SMEs start internationalisation by exporting to neighbouring markets, SMEs behave in internationalisation according to the establishment chain, SMEs' risk perception regarding foreign markets with different psychic distance changes with the obtained knowledge and SMEs' risk perception regarding particular foreign markets differs depending on the country which the enterprise comes from.
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Mendel University in Brno
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2015-12-30
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document application/zip |
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https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/14
10.11118/ejobsat.v1i2.14 |
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European Journal of Business Science and Technology; Vol 1 No 2 (2015); pp. 149–164
2694-7161 2336-6494 |
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eng
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https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/14/pdf_10
https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/14/98 https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/14/99 |
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Copyright (c) 2016 European Journal of Business Science and Technology
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