6 Virtual Teams and Internationalisation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Per Servais

DOI: 10.4324/9781003398745-6

Introduction

The perception of the term “teams” in various forms has influenced the expectations of firms’ internationalisation in various ways. The interest in this term goes back to the publication of Gartner's (1988) seminal article, “Who is an entrepreneur? Is the wrong question”, because it can be seen as being the critical element in moving entrepreneurship research away from searching qualities of entrepreneurs, small firms, or communities to studying entrepreneurship from a behavioural perspective. Inspired by Gartner (1988), entrepreneurship research and international entrepreneurship started to define its object ...

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