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
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.