Titlebook: Network Embeddedness; Examining the Effect Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 internati

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,Relationships and Interactions as the Basis of Companies’ Activities,defined as two distinct states of connections between companies. The analysis includes both interorganizational (business) and personal relationships. The discussion is complemented with an analysis of characteristics that determine relationship quality, including trust, commitment, adaptations, and

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,Three Perspectives of Companies’ Embeddedness,, interorganizational network and territorial. Social embeddedness (societal embeddedness) is based on works from Polanyi and Granovetter and refers to social conditions of economic behavior and the impact of personal relationships on companies’ activities. Interorganizational network embeddedness e

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,The Network Theory of Companies’ Internationalization—the Importance of Relationships for Internatiformative description of the network model of internationalization and the revised Uppsala model 2009. Next it describes the role of different types of relationships and especially inward connections and domestic relationships in internationalization. Finally Ratajczak-Mrozek systematizes main areas

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,The Importance of Embeddedness for Companies’ International Activities,mbedded multinationals and the outcomes of internal and external embeddedness for multinational companies and their subsidiaries. Next Ratajczak-Mrozek extends the analysis of embeddedness in internationalization, by including SMEs’ activities. She presents a model of a firm embedded in domestic and

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,Positive and Negative Outcomes of Embeddedness for the Domestic and International Activity—Case Stuy focuses on the effect of embeddedness in business and personal relationships on companies’ internationalization and the effect of embeddedness on companies’ domestic and foreign activity. After identification of similar patterns in all cases, chapter summarizes positive and negative outcomes of so

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,The Importance of Relationships and Embeddedness for Companies’ Internationalization and Performance results show that all companies are embedded to a different degree in domestic and international business relationships and are subject to domestic and international interactions. The chapter presents the effect of embeddedness in relationships on companies’ internationalization and summarizes the

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Conclusions,ion and companies’ activity. The chapter shows that all companies, regardless of their size, are embedded to a different degree in domestic and international relationships and are subject to domestic and international interactions. This questions the validity of the distinction between domestic and

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