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From the firm’s point of view internationalization is seen as an instrument to increase its per-formance. This perspective is also – at least implicitly – the fundament of every theory about firms’ internationalization. However, empirical research trying to test the respective relation-ship is leaving us with heterogeneous results up to now. The discussion on those studies and their results offers two approaches to deal with the contradictory research outcomes: Some researchers argue that the...From the firm’s point of view internationalization is seen as an instrument to increase its per-formance. This perspective is also – at least implicitly – the fundament of every theory about firms’ internationalization. However, empirical research trying to test the respective relation-ship is leaving us with heterogeneous results up to now. The discussion on those studies and their results offers two approaches to deal with the contradictory research outcomes: Some researchers argue that there might be no systematic internationalization-performance relation-ship at all. Others find the 3-Stage Theory of Internationalization to be a general theory with the potential to harmonize the only on the first glance contradictory observations. However, due to conceptual and methodological problems both approaches are up to now not satisfying. Based on a review of 40 empirical studies this paper attempts to introduce some critical con-siderations into the discussion and to define some new research avenues.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Wirtschaftswissenschaften

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Wirtschaft