Limitations
The research is limited to concern Swedish international manufacturing companies from the region of Skane in different industries, since it was difficult to find Swedish international service companies in the region of Skane available for interview. Other problems were time and finances that constituted limitations for visiting companies outside Skane. Further limitations were that only five out of thirty companies were interested in participating in our study within the time line we set up.
It was difficult to grasp the underlying factors for internationalisation in the old companies as Alfa Laval and Perstorp AB. The interviewed persons were not present during the early internationalisation processes and their statements may have been subjective reconstructions of reality. Only one representative for each company has retold the internationalisation process during a relatively short interview. It is difficult to estimate the correlation between the actual and the stated versions of the processes. The study also had to be conducted solely on the companies' terms.