factor analysis, ix, xxvii, 127, 133, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145, 148, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 310, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 337

factor interpretability, 139

financial resource, 42, 61, 109, 246, 250

firm resources, 14, 320

firm size, 23, 43, 113, 130, 131, 161, 321, 322

firms? capabilities, 23, 25

foreign market entry, 11, 19, 321, 327, 329

foreign market forces, 24

global advertising costs, 40, 232

global choice, 38

global marketing, 2, 325, 327, 335, 336, 337, 340

global markets, 4

graphical method, 118

homoscedasticity, 117, 120

human assets, 15, 44

improved competitiveness, 29

increased market share, 29

indicator reflective scales, 99

industrial organisation economics, xviii, 3

industrial structures, 2

industry characteristics, 25, 26, 155

informant bias, 96, 130

information efficiency, xviii, 15

information technologies, 2, 340

innovation model, 10

intangibility, 42, 64

integration of e-commerce, xviii, 15, 24, 51, 61, 78, 251, 261

intellectual property, 27

intensity of exporting activity, 26

interconnectivity, 57, 58

intermediaries, xv, xviii, xx, xxiv, 11, 12, 13, 15, 22, 28, 32, 38, 39, 40, 44, 70, 74, 78, 229, 234, 236, 249, 251, 253, 259, 262, 336

internal determinants, xxiii, xxvi, 17, 19, 60, 104, 105, 106, 135, 146, 148, 149, 170, 310, 322

internal e-commerce drivers, 3, 63, 64, 65, 107, 228, 240, 241, 261

internal environmental factors, 19

internal forces, ix,, xx, 49, 50, 61, 62, 63, 167

international competence, xx, xxi, xxiii, 26, 49, 60, 61, 63, 68, 104, 105, 146, 229, 237, 238, 259, 261

international co-ordination, 88

international expansion, 11

international experience, xxi, 23, 60, 70, 238, 261, 262

international operations, xxiv, 2, 78, 262

internationalisation, xxvii, xiv, xvii, xviii, 3, 10, 11, 12, 18, 61, 231, 265

Internet survey, 86, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 114, 115, 120, 121, 125, 129, 265, 325

Internet traffic, 37

intra-business e-commerce, 32

key informants, 91, 95, 96, 99, 125, 129

kurtosis, 118

latent root, 138

leading-edge firms, 32

legal regulations, 27, 28, 255