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: A Review of the Internationalization Models of Firms

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The Increasing Growth of the world trade volume and it’s changes has made internationalization as one of the key components of business strategies in many companies in the world. So far, many attempts have been made to understand this process, and there are many definitions for the internationalization of companies. Internationalization of companies is one of the issues that has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. Over time, many models have been presented to explain this process. Despite the differences in these theories, the Apalsa model, I models and pre-export behavior models focus on the internal processes of companies to achieve internationalization goals, but network models seek to describe the internationalization process of companies based on the establishment and maintenance of relationships with other companies. The purpose of this article is to present a comprehensive and transparent picture of internationalization models their well as their differences.
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Volume 16, Issue 90 - Serial Number 90
March and April 2019
Pages 23-39

  • Receive Date 19 February 2018
  • Revise Date 27 October 2018
  • Accept Date 06 November 2018