Teori och Praktik
En studie beträffande svensk forskning om internationalisering i svenska företag och dess relevans för praktiker utifrån Handelskammaren, Exportrådet och forskare
MarknadsföringsforskningMarknadsföringsteoriKunskapInternationaliseringInternationaliseringsprocessUppsala-modellen.
Title: Theory and Practice: A study of Swedish Research on the Internationalization in Swedish Business and its Relevance to Practice´s, according to The Camber of Commers, Swedish Trade Council and researchers.Main issue: Within marketing science, there is an general ongoing discussion about the gap between researchers and practitioners, this leads to the thesis main issue on whether the Swedish marketing research conducted in the internationalization of Swedish companies, is relevant to practitioners and provides essential tools for practitioners to applicable in real business situations.Purpose: The purpose is to answer the problems of theory and practice, what it looks like and what the underlying factors and impact difference between internationalization theory and practice are.Method: The thesis has a qualitative methodology mainly based on theory, as well as empirical findings from researchers and organizations working with Swedish company's internationalization.Results: The result shows that there is a difference between theory and practice and that there are several factors underpinning this. Theories primary purpose is not to be practical but to explore an unanswered need to create an understanding to the researcher?s audience, which is other researchers, thereby are theories based on knowledge not demands from the practitioners. The result also shows that the internationalization theories can be applied in practice´s reality on the internationalization of companies. Research degree of generality has a sense of reality given by the empirical studies which therefore reflects the reality of the theory which gives theory a content of truth.Conclusion: The gap that exists between theory and practice has both positive and negative effects. The parties are active in different industries and uses different contexts of language, making them difficult to reconcile, and maybe they should not be reconciled. However, there are similarities between scientists' theories and the company's performance, as demonstrated; the company's internationalization process is very similar to the theories of the internationalization process. Whether the research on internationalization today is relevant is impossible to determine, researchers work within the future, the answer can therefore be obtained in the future.