Internationalization of knowledge-intensive SMEs: The role of network relationships in the entry to a psychically distant market

By Arto Ojala. 2009

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Social capital in relation to the foreign market entry and post-entry operations of family SMEs (2011, background): “In contrast to formal ties, there are no business transactions between the buyer and the intermediary or between the seller and the intermediary (Ojala 2009).”
Collaboration and Internationalization of SMEs: Insights and Recommendations from a Systematic Review (2020, background): “Qualitative designs include single case studies (Chetty and Stangl 2010; Francioni et al. 2017), multiple case studies (e.g. Galkina and Chetty 2015; Ojala 2009), and longitudinal case studies (Chetty and Holm 2000).”
A bibliometric analysis of family firm internationalization research: Current themes, theoretical roots, and ways forward (2020, background): “These contributions stress the ways in which social capital, in its structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions (Nahapiet & Goshal, 1998), represents an important resource for a firm’s competitive advantage in obtaining a working knowledge of foreign market opportunities (Ellis, 2000) and in en”
Decision mode, information and network attachment in the internationalization of SMEs: A configurational and contingency analysis (2014, background): “development of SMEs (Andersen; 2006; Ellis, 2011; Coviello, 2006; Manolova et al., 2010; Ojala, 2009).”
International Opportunity Recognition among Small and Medium‐Sized Family Firms* (2011, positive): “As Ojala (2008) found, business opportunities (such as demand and a market potential for niche products) constituted the main reason for managers of Finnish software firms to decide to enter the Japanese market.”
Effectuation and foreign market entry of entrepreneurial firms (2015, background): “This extends the findings by Ojala (2009) indicating that firms may also select psychically close countries by using goal-oriented decision-making.”
International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research (2012, background): “…Musteen et al. (2010) Muzychenko (2008) Nordman and Melen (2008) Nummela et al. (2005; 2004) Nummela and Welch (2006) O’Cass and Weerawardena (2009) Ojala (2009) Oviatt and McDougall (1994, 1995, 2005a, b) Pajunen and Maunula (2008) Pangarkar (2008) Papadopoulos and Martín Martín (2010) Peng…”
The inception of internationalization of small and medium enterprises: The role of activeness and networks (2014, background): “…through which Chinese exporters began their internationalization — an aspect of internationalization, which, despite its importance, is still underrepresented in the literature (Agndal, Chetty, & Wilson, 2008; Ghauri, Lutz, & Tesfom, 2003; Javalgi & Todd, 2011; Kiss et al., 2012; Ojala, 2009).”