...Svante Andersson; Natasha Evers; Gabriela Gliga Purpose This study aims to explore the entrepreneurial marketing (EM) behaviour of Swedish born globals entering the Chinese market through their international networks. Drawing from the network theory of small firm internationalisation, this study...

... the concept of “boundary objects” (a concept traditionally applied to the study of innovation) to the analysis of wine routes and provides further theoretical and managerial insights concerning networking between wine and tourism sectors, taking a supply-side perspective. Ilenia Bregoli...

... their personal contact networks over the life cycle of an enterprise. Draws on the relevant literature to provide a contextual setting for the research. The research approach adopted is largely inductive and it resulted in the emergence of a theoretical model of network evolution for owner‐managed...

...Carlos Melo Brito Connectedness is a central characteristic of industrial networks with significant methodological implications. One of the most important implications has to do with the choice of the sampling unit. This paper introduces the concept of an issue‐based net and suggests its use...

... Networks Small firms It is now recognised that small firm research is at too “young” a stage in its development to benefit from a positivist research approach that encourages the use of quantitative methods of scientific inquiry (Aldrich, 1992; Bygrave, 1989; Churchill and Lewis, 1986; Sexton...