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Differences in Strategies between Rapidly and Gradually Internationalising Polish Firms

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  • Mirosław Jarosiński

    (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Faculty of World Economy, Institute of International Management and Marketing, Warsaw, Poland)

  • Krystian Barłożewski

    (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Faculty of World Economy, Institute of International Management and Marketing, Warsaw, Poland)

Abstract

The paper presents a qualitative study of rapidly and gradually internationalising Polish firms. It compares these two types of firms with a special attention to their competitive strategies. The results show that there are more similarities than differences between the two groups of firms from emerging markets. These findings, based on case studies and interviews must be interpreted with a lot of caution, because the similar strategic behaviour of gradually internationalising firms to rapidly internationalising firms may stem from the fact that the former want to quickly reduce the distance to their counterparts in highly developed countries and thus take some strategic actions similar to rapidly internationalising firms.

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  • Mirosław Jarosiński & Krystian Barłożewski, 2019. "Differences in Strategies between Rapidly and Gradually Internationalising Polish Firms," Acta Oeconomica, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 69(supplemen), pages 163-189, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:aoecon:v:69:y:2019:i:supplement2:p:163-189
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    internationalisation; competitive strategies; Central and Eastern Europe;
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    • M16 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - International Business Administration

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