Contemporary Models of Polish Firms Internationalization - Literature and Research Review

A review of the literature and research on internationalization of Polish companies as well as author's own studies indicate that at present two models of internationalization coincide in Poland: a stages model and a model of early internationalization. It is very interesting because the model of early internationalization appeared in Poland at the same time as in developed countries, i.e. at the beginning of the 1990s. Yet one could expect that all Polish companies should develop according to the stages model since internationalization was something totally new for Polish companies in the 1990s. The author postulates more intensive and more extensive research on born globals in Poland to reduce the gap between research on this topic in developed countries and in Poland. Also a cross-country study of born globals in CEE is proposed with comparison of results to studies on born globals from other European countries.