Internationalization as a process
I examine how knowledge, uncertainty, commitment and opportunity recognition interact across time rather than treating internationalization as a static firm attribute.
Research domains
My work is organized around processual and coevolutionary explanations of firm internationalization.
- Internationalization process
- Earliness and speed
- International entrepreneurship
- SMEs and new ventures
- Uppsala Model
- Managerial cognition
- Experiential learning
- Digitalization
- Institutional environments
- Dynamic capabilities
- Meta-analysis
- Longitudinal modelling
Reciprocal strategic development
A central concern is bidirectionality: internationalization can stimulate capability development, while capabilities can accelerate or reshape internationalization.
Cognition and internal uncertainty
I investigate how managers perceive, interpret and activate latent capabilities under ambiguity, complexity and changing environmental conditions.
Theoretical foundations
My research engages primarily with the Uppsala Model, international entrepreneurship, the behavioural theory of the firm, dynamic capabilities and institution-based explanations of strategy. I am especially interested in theoretical integration that remains explicit about levels of analysis and temporal mechanisms.
Methodological orientation
Current projects use event-history models, longitudinal structural equation models, multilevel variance decomposition, meta-analysis and meta-analytic structural equation modelling, stochastic frontier approaches and simulation. These methods are selected to make process arguments empirically testable—not as ends in themselves.