The Internationalization Process of Estonian Software Companies
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4. term
Publication year
2014
Submitted on
2014-03-01
Pages
74
Abstract
This thesis was initiated because of the extremely interesting and fairly unexplored topic – the internationalization process of Estonian ICT companies. Applying the Porters Diamond Model to collect and interpret the secondary data from the internet, books, journals and statistical sources to find the external factors that influence the internationalization of Estonian ICT industry and identify the competitiveness of the industry. To be able to describe the internationalization phenomena this chapter was divided into the theories related to firms regardless of the nature of the firms (Uppsala Model, The Product lifecycle theory) and into theories related to MNEs (OLI Model). Following theories were used as theoretical framework, while taking the SMEs perspective. The main findings of the project were, that Estonia is one of the best environments to start ICT related business, because of the free and highly developed infrastructure environment and the competitiveness of the industry is one of the highest in Eastern-Europe. We can expect, that ICT industry and software sector of Estonia will remain and become even more competitive during the near future.
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