Acknowledgements

It is great to have finally completed our Bachelor’s thesis. Within the interesting area of foreign market entry strategies used to enter transition markets, we have gained much knowledge, and also discovered an area where we want to work in the future. During the writing process we have experienced both drawbacks and progress. However, our supervisor Tim Foster, Ph.D. candidate at the Department for Industrial Marketing at Luleå University of Technology, has motivated us to work hard, and has also helped us through the difficulties we have encountered during the process. Furthermore, we would like to thank Stefan Öberg, commercial director at Tele2’s Russian operations department, for providing us with valuable information and for setting aside time for us despite his tight schedule. Finally, we want to give our deepest gratitude to our classmates for providing us with plenty of valuable and constructive criticism. We hope that this thesis will be interesting and useful reading material for other students, researchers, and people interested in the subject are