Knowledge-based view on internationalization and effect of product/service types

Author

Kuivalainen, Olli ; Kylaheiko, Kalevi ; Puumalainen, Kaisu ; Saarenketo, Sami

Author_Institution

Telecom Bus. Res. Center, Lappeenranta Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

Supplement

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

320

Abstract

Small Infocom firms often show fast international growth. However, there are also differences in attitudes, speed and scope of internationalization within the industry and these can partly be attributed to differences in knowledge related variables like level of knowledge, its tacitness and path dependency. Results from the authors´ survey of 171 Finnish SMEs show that product or service type may act as a moderator in the relationship between the knowledge variables and internationalization

Keywords

commerce; knowledge engineering; research and development management; technology transfer; Finland; SMEs; internationalization; knowledge level; knowledge tacitness; knowledge-based view; knowledge-related variables; path dependency; product/service types effects; small and medium sized enterprises; Business; Communication industry; Communications technology; Costs; Economic forecasting; Globalization; Industrial relations; Personnel; Technological innovation; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

1-890843-06-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2001.952032

Filename

952032