Four Essays on International Entrepreneurship
Internationalization of business activities has become one of the main fields of interest in management research, influencing a broad range of academic areas such as strategic management, organizational science, operations management or economic instituti
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GABLER RESEARCH Essays on Supply Chain Management Edited by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Evi Hartmann Chair of Supply Chain Management Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
This series publishes new research in logistics and supply chain management. It comprises outstanding dissertations that deal with scientifically-based, management-relevant questions. The publications provide important scientific findings about current practice-relevant questions, using qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Gordian Rättich
Four Essays on International Entrepreneurship With a preface by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Evi Hartmann
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Dissertation Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2011
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Foreword In the last decades the way how companies are doing business has changed dramatically. In the past, barriers of doing business abroad seemed to be high and therefore mainly well established companies tried to venture new markets or global activities. Today more and more newly established companies are going global directly. To be able to do so these early internationalizing firms seem to manage their business and international expansion very efficiently. This way even small and recently founded firms are able to join the globalization of business activities. As a consequence business, even for multinational companies, is changing. For this reason the field of International Entrepreneurship is highly important for management research in general and for supply chain research especially, as supply chains have to be adapted to the new conditions. Despite all the existing research, even more research is still needed to explore the highly important field of International Entrepreneurship. The Chair of Supply Chain Management at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nurnberg focuses on performing research not only in the direct area of Supply Chain Management but also in topics that are drive
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