Bent Petersen

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical model is developed based on the internationalization process view and the more recent organizational learning perspective, including concepts such as overconfidence and absorptive capacity, to explore whether knowledge gaps tend to increase or decrease with time when operating in the foreign market, and discuss which learning components narrow or widen the perceived knowledge gap.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the evolution of the software industry in terms of human capital accumulation and take the case of an internationally competitive high-tech industry from a developing economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the evolution of additive manufacturing technology, culminating in 3D printing and present a vision of how this evolution is affecting existing global value chains (GVCs) in production.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address a long-standing discrepancy between theory and practice regarding how firms choose, use, and modify their modes of operation in foreign markets, and propose richer and more realistic conceptualisations of foreign operation modes.

TL;DR: In this paper, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore sourcing in low-cost countries is best described as a learning-by-doing process in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation.