Abstract:

Internationalisation takes into account many aspects, horizons and dimensions and requires looking from different perspectives and levels, which is why it is difficult to define it explicitly without considering different points of view. Various definitions operate in the sciences depending on the processes that take place in the world, such as globalisation, regionalisation, universalism, Europeanization, and trans-nationalisation. The borders of countries in the economic sense are blurring, and many of them disappear completely, which implies a peculiar tendency among economies to build communities and areas of free trade. Therefore, globalisation processes can be seen as one of the many reasons for internationalisation. Though, in this article, the author discusses the phenomenon of internationalisation in the context of theories relating to the nature of organisational boundaries, which are regarded as providing a basis for understanding the conditions and trends in global enterprise management. The paper is based on the literature review and a study of scientific works on the concept of internationalisation, strategic management and two theories: the theory of transaction costs and the RBV (the resource theory) in relation to the concept of organisational boundaries.