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Paper info: Towards A Process Model Of Internetalisation: Becoming An E-Business

Title


Towards A Process Model Of Internetalisation: Becoming An E-Business

Authors


Gary Buttriss
Australian National University
Australia
Gary Buttriss and
Ian Wilkinson
University of Sydney
Australia
Ian Wilkinson

Place of Publication


The paper was published at the 19th IMP-conference in Lugano, Switzerland in 2003.

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Abstract


This paper suggests a new way of thinking about how an organisation becomes an ebusiness. It suggests that a good metaphor for doing this is to draw on the more familiar concept and much researched issue of firm internationalisation. Internationalisation refers t the process whereby a firm incrementally increases its commitment to international markets. Here we suggest a new term ? internetalisation, to refer to the process of a firm committing resources to Internet commerce and Internet mediated transactions, including communications and coordination of internal and external relations.