Background: Following the ongoing globalisation, family businesses have been inclined to grow their businesses outside of their home markets. While academic attention has been devoted to family business internationalisation, it has mainly taken a family-focused perspective. Existing international business theories emphasise foreign market networks as facilitators for internationalisation, leaving home market networks under-researched. Purpose: This paper explores family business internationalisation by adopting an international business lens. The revised Uppsala model is used as the main frame of reference to understand how network relationships in the home market facilitate family business internationalisation. Method: The study is based on a qualitative design with an exploratory purpose and a grounded theory methodology, following a realist ontology and constructionist epistemology. Six in-depth semi-structured interviews with four family businesses were conducted. The use of grounded analysis allowed us to find patterns and explanations to ultimately develop a theory grounded in our findings. Conclusion: The benefits resulting from home market network relationships facilitate family business internationalisation. Predominantly, the acquisition of knowledge is a necessary step to gain resources family businesses are missing to internationalise. The conceptualisation of our theoretical model with the revised Uppsala model suggests an elaboration of the latter to include network resources and capabilities.

I denna enkätstudie som genomförts på nitton personer som arbetade inom förskolan, kom det fram att förskolepersonal upplevde att de arbetade utefter upplevda förväntningar där de prioriterade sina kollegors och barnens hälsa framför sin egen. Det kom även fram att några av dem hade svårt att koppla av från sitt arbete när de kom hem och var lediga eller sjuka. Några av informanterna uppgav att de hade svårt att bedriva sina arbeten då de upplevde att deras arbeten hade så många kringliggande arbetsuppgifter som exempelvis att tvätta, diska, montera upp saker och dokumentera men även att det hände så mycket oförberedda saker så att de fick lägga mycket av sin arbetstid på att vara problemlösare istället för att bedriva vad de uttryckte som sitt huvuduppdrag att bedriva pedagogisk undervisning. Många av informanterna uppgav att de arbetade utifrån avsaknaden av känslan att få vara med och påverka sina verksamheter samt avsaknad av KASAM det vill säga upplevelsen av begriplighet, hanterbarhet och meningsfullhet i sitt arbete och genom svaren kunde detta bidra till ohälsa hos förskolepersonalen.Då studiens syfte varit att se om avsaknaden av att kunna påverka sitt arbete relaterade till ohälsa hos personalen så visade det sig hos informanterna att det till stor del hade ett samband, vilket även annan forskning tidigare påvisat.Nyckelord: / In this survey based on nineteen people working in preschool it emerged that the preschool staff felt that they were working according to perceived expectations where they prioritized the health of their colleagues and children’s health over their own. It also emerged that some of them had difficulty relaxing from their work when they came home and were free or sick. Some of the informants stated that they had difficulty doing their work because they felt that their work had so many related tasks such as washing clothes, washing dishes, assembling things and documenting, but also that so much unprepared things happened that they had to spend a lot of their worktime being problem solvers instead of pursuing what they expressed as their main mission to conduct educational teaching. Many of the informants stated that they worked based on the lack of the feeling of being able to influence their activities as well as the lack of SOC, Sense of Coherence, that is the experience of comprehension, manageability, and meaningfulness in their work and through the answers this could contribute to ill health among preschool staff.Since the aim of this study was to see if the lack of being able to influence their work related to ill health among the staff, it turned out from the informants that it was largely related, as other research has previously shown.