Contrasting Internationalization Paths of Product- and Service-oriented Software Firms

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dc.contributor.authorOjala, Arto
dc.contributor.authorRönkkö, Mikko
dc.contributor.authorPeltonen, Juhana
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-03T00:37:09Z
dc.date.available2019-01-03T00:37:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractThe internationalization of software firms has been widely researched topic over the last two decades. However, the most of the studies have treated software firms as a homogeneous group, ignoring the fact that software firms actually differ greatly in terms of having either a product or a service orientation. Based on earlier literature, we hypothesized that software product firms would show a tendency to internationalize earlier and at a smaller size than software service firms, and that product firms would show a greater tendency to target countries that are both geographically and culturally distant. In fact, we found no support for most of our hypotheses, with relatively strong and statistically significant results emerging in the opposite direction. We offer several explanations for these counterintuitive findings.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.644
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/59971
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCulture, International Business, and Knowledge Systems
dc.subjectKnowledge Innovation and Entrepreneurial Systems
dc.subjectCustomization, Distance, Internationalization Speed, Localization, Software firms
dc.titleContrasting Internationalization Paths of Product- and Service-oriented Software Firms
dc.typeConference Paper
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