George Tesar is Professor Emeritus of Marketing and International Business at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA. He is an Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Zsuzsanna Vincze is Associate Professor at Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Head of the Entrepreneurship, and holds a position of Docent of International Business at the University of Turku, Finland.

• 1.Motivating SMEs to Cooperate and Internationalize: a Dynamic Perspective – IntroductionGeorge TesarPart 1: Entrepreneurial Action2. From Small Businesses to Internationalized Entrepreneurial Ventures – Some Personal NotesRolf A. Lundin3. Come to the Northern Side – We have a Business ModelPetri Ahokangas, Irina Atkova and Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen4. Managerial Initiatives, Internationalization and Smaller Manufacturing Enterprises: Perspectives and ApproachesGeorge TesarPart 2: Managerial Aspects of SMEs5. Triggers of Substantial Business Model Innovation: Lessons Learned from Swedish SMEsVladimir Vanyushyn and Jan Abrahamsson6. Digitally Enabled Platforms: Generating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Opportunities for SMEsArnim Decker and Liliyana Makarova Jørsfeldt7. The Role of Auditing in Banks’ Risk Assessment of SMEs: A Literature Review and New Venues for Future ResearchGiulia Giunti and Tobias SvanströmPart 3: Industrial Networks Development8. Nascent Entrepreneurial Teams Managing in Networks: Mobilization, Utilization and SaturationThommie Burström, Jussi Harri and Timothy Wilson9. SME-MNE Cooperation in a Regional ClusterZsuzsanna Vincze and Peter Zettinig10. Straight ahead or Wandering through the Woods? - Decision-Making in Entrepreneurial InternationalizationNiina Nummela, Leila Hurmerinta and Eriikka Paavilainen-MäntymäkiPart 4: Internationalization11. Growth Ambitions and Internationalization Among Newly Started Small Swedish FirmsGert-Olof Boström, Karl Jo

George Tesar is Professor Emeritus of Marketing and International Business at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA. He is an Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Zsuzsanna Vincze is Associate Professor at Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Head of the Entrepreneurship, and holds a position of Docent of International Business at the University of Turku, Finland.

• 1.Motivating SMEs to Cooperate and Internationalize: a Dynamic Perspective – IntroductionGeorge TesarPart 1: Entrepreneurial Action2. From Small Businesses to Internationalized Entrepreneurial Ventures – Some Personal NotesRolf A. Lundin3. Come to the Northern Side – We have a Business ModelPetri Ahokangas, Irina Atkova and Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen4. Managerial Initiatives, Internationalization and Smaller Manufacturing Enterprises: Perspectives and ApproachesGeorge TesarPart 2: Managerial Aspects of SMEs5. Triggers of Substantial Business Model Innovation: Lessons Learned from Swedish SMEsVladimir Vanyushyn and Jan Abrahamsson6. Digitally Enabled Platforms: Generating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Opportunities for SMEsArnim Decker and Liliyana Makarova Jørsfeldt7. The Role of Auditing in Banks’ Risk Assessment of SMEs: A Literature Review and New Venues for Future ResearchGiulia Giunti and Tobias SvanströmPart 3: Industrial Networks Development8. Nascent Entrepreneurial Teams Managing in Networks: Mobilization, Utilization and SaturationThommie Burström, Jussi Harri and Timothy Wilson9. SME-MNE Cooperation in a Regional ClusterZsuzsanna Vincze and Peter Zettinig10. Straight ahead or Wandering through the Woods? - Decision-Making in Entrepreneurial InternationalizationNiina Nummela, Leila Hurmerinta and Eriikka Paavilainen-MäntymäkiPart 4: Internationalization11. Growth Ambitions and Internationalization Among Newly Started Small Swedish FirmsGert-Olof Boström, Karl Jo

George Tesar is Professor Emeritus of Marketing and International Business at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA. He is an Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Zsuzsanna Vincze is Associate Professor at Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Head of the Entrepreneurship, and holds a position of Docent of International Business at the University of Turku, Finland.

• 1.Motivating SMEs to Cooperate and Internationalize: a Dynamic Perspective – IntroductionGeorge TesarPart 1: Entrepreneurial Action2. From Small Businesses to Internationalized Entrepreneurial Ventures – Some Personal NotesRolf A. Lundin3. Come to the Northern Side – We have a Business ModelPetri Ahokangas, Irina Atkova and Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen4. Managerial Initiatives, Internationalization and Smaller Manufacturing Enterprises: Perspectives and ApproachesGeorge TesarPart 2: Managerial Aspects of SMEs5. Triggers of Substantial Business Model Innovation: Lessons Learned from Swedish SMEsVladimir Vanyushyn and Jan Abrahamsson6. Digitally Enabled Platforms: Generating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Opportunities for SMEsArnim Decker and Liliyana Makarova Jørsfeldt7. The Role of Auditing in Banks’ Risk Assessment of SMEs: A Literature Review and New Venues for Future ResearchGiulia Giunti and Tobias SvanströmPart 3: Industrial Networks Development8. Nascent Entrepreneurial Teams Managing in Networks: Mobilization, Utilization and SaturationThommie Burström, Jussi Harri and Timothy Wilson9. SME-MNE Cooperation in a Regional ClusterZsuzsanna Vincze and Peter Zettinig10. Straight ahead or Wandering through the Woods? - Decision-Making in Entrepreneurial InternationalizationNiina Nummela, Leila Hurmerinta and Eriikka Paavilainen-MäntymäkiPart 4: Internationalization11. Growth Ambitions and Internationalization Among Newly Started Small Swedish FirmsGert-Olof Boström, Karl Jo