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Paper info: The Impact Of Networks On The Internationalization PROCESS Of Estonian Firms

Title


The Impact Of Networks On The Internationalization PROCESS Of Estonian Firms

Authors


Tiia Vissak
University of Tartu
Estonia
Tiia Vissak and Tõnu Roolaht

Place of Publication


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

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Abstract


Network membership (both through long-term relationships with foreign suppliers and buyers and joining the foreign owners? network) can facilitate the Estonian companies? foreign expansion, providing them with necessary resources and capabilities, but sometimes also inhibit it. The ownership ties might lead to extensive foreign support, but reduced strategic autonomy.