A Note On Penrosean Growth, Resource Bundles and the Uppsala Model of Internationalisation
Management International Review › Band 47 Nr. 2, März 2007
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The Uppsala model of the internationalization process of the firm has many similarities with Penrosean growth theory but has been limited by ambiguity about the internal mechanisms of growth. Core insights from Penrose's Theory of the Growth of the Firm may advance development of the Uppsala model. Penrose's theory of growth is a powerful adjunct to the Uppsala model of the internationalization process of the firm. A variation on the Uppsala model that incorporates the dynamic and interdependent interaction between managerial choice, the formation of resource bundles and their connection to external opportunities is proposed.
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A Note On Penrosean Growth, Resource Bundles and the Uppsala Model of Internationalisation
Introduction
The internationalisation of the firm has attracted scholarly attention from several perspectives, but these fall into two main themes. On the one hand, and largely attributable to the dominant form of international business at the time in the mid1970s, theory emerged from an economics heritage to explain the very nature of the large MNE (Buckley/Casson 1976, Rugman 1981, Dunning 1981). Under this market internalisation theory, imperfections in international markets motivate transactions cost minimising firms to bring exchange into the firm's governance structure. The large MNE becomes a structure of geographically dispersed, internal markets (Dunning 1988, Pitelis 2002a). This explains well the nature of the large MNE, but it is static and it demands that markets are imperfect or missing (Pitelis 1991). At about the same time, a 'Nordic' school of thought, internationalisation process theory, sought to explain the process through which internationalising firms traversed as they moved into foreign markets and deepened their involvement in these markets (Carlson 1974, Johanson/Wiedersheim-Paul 1975, Johanson/Vahlne 1977, Wiedersheim-Paul/Olson/Welch 1978). This approach took on a behavioural heritage in attempting to bring dynamism into understand...Siehe den Gesamtinhalt dieses Dokumentes
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