Born Globals: (almost) 20 years of research and still not 'grown up'?

Cesinger, Beate; Danko, Adriana; Bouncken, Ricarda B.

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2012.045203

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“…The last two decades, research focusing on International New Ventures (INVs) and Born Global firms (BGs) has developed into a significant research stream as can be witnessed by the number of recent review articles as for example (Aspelund, Madsen, & Moen, 2007;Cesinger, Danko, & Bouncken, 2012;Jones, Coviello, & Tang, 2011;Keupp & Gassmann, 2009;Rialp, Rialp, & Knight, 2005). These types of firms are defined in different ways, but elements of speed, extent and scope (Zahra & George, 2002) of their international engagement are often used in definitions.…”

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New ventures in an emerging industry: access to and use of international resources

Bjørgum

Moen

Madsen

2013

IJESB

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This paper addresses international activities of young companies in the emerging marine energy industry. We build our study on interviews in eight companies combined with scientific reports and publications. The main challenges for the companies are related to financing and technology development. Our findings show that the companies may be divided in three groups: a) three technology and funding driven international ventures, b) one market driven international venture and c) four companies with limited international involvement. The short timespan between establishment and first major international activity for acquiring funding or technology competence is a distinct characteristic of the firms in the first two groups. The last group with no or limited international activity reveals an alternative development path. Our study gives insight in significant firm level differences with regard to international involvement in the pre-commercial phase of development and discusses the implications for researchers, managers and public policy.

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New ventures in an emerging industry: access to and use of international resources

Bjørgum

Moen

Madsen

2013

IJESB

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“…Both BG and INV theories just di↵erentiate the initial speed of the internationalization with criteria in part of the scale dimension: percentage of turnover from overseas in the first three to five years (Madsen, 2013;Zahra, 2005). They did not go further (Cesinger et al, 2012), for instance, to investigate whether the scope and tempo (speed) of internationalization changes (Kuivalainen et al, 2012). This study reveals more variance and changes in motion pattern and behavior patterns.…”

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“…A more formal identification of BG came from scholars such as Knight and Cavusgil (1996), who defined technology-oriented firms, which have been involved in international business and operated in international markets from the earliest days of their establishment. Although there is no agreed-upon or consistent criteria on how fast (e.g., two, three or five years) a firm could achieve a certain percentage of overseas turnover (e.g., more than 25% or 75%) to be categorized as BG (Rasmussen and Madsen, 2002;Cesinger et al, 2012), instant or rapid speed is a clear feature of both INV and BG (Madsen, 2013). Some scholars further regard BG as one of the special groups within INV (Zahra, 2005).…”

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Contextualization of Evolving Patterns in the Internationalization of Small Firms

2015

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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The internationalization of SMEs has been recognized as one of the important paths to growth in SMEs. However, internationalization is also a resource and competence-demanding process. This is especially true for smaller-sized SMEs – the small and micro-sized firms – which have a large resource constraint, making internationalization even more challenging. Although this group of small firms counts for an average of over 98% of the total population of enterprises in EU countries, extant research on the internationalization of this group is still limited. Therefore, the main purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to a better understanding of evolving patterns of internationalization in the smaller-sized SMEs. The study uses emerging market entry along the internationalization of small firms as a context to probe the dynamics of perceived risk (uncertainty) and perceived opportunity in different foreign markets which influence the important decisions of small firms during their internationalization. The main study takes a longitudinal approach and uses mixed methods to investigate the features in both the initial period and the continued period of internationalization. It mainly builds on a multiple-case study of 12 Swedish firms, which have/had emerging market entry experience and/or involvement. This study illustrates influences from the environmental, organizational and individual levels on evolving patterns of internationalization in the investigated firms. This dissertation concludes that critical decisions and actions taken in the internationalization process depend on interactions among the influence and resources from the three levels. Such interactions form a conditional preference on perceived risk (uncertainty) and perceived opportunity during the internationalization of small firms. The study further proposes that the dynamics in the internationalization process are caused by a prospect-guided change mechanism. This dissertation contributes to the literature by: differentiating patterns of internationalization; enriching the study of “born global” in the continued period of internationalization; introducing a new perspective on the interpretation of dynamics in the internationalization; and increasing the understanding on the interactions of resources from three levels on the internationalization of small firms

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“…Recent reviews (Cesinger et al 2012;Garcia-Lillo et al 2017;Reuber et al 2017;Martin and Javalgi 2018;Romanello and Chiarvesio 2019) have concluded that there is no consensus on the operational definition of these organizations. Common to the investigations is the idea that these firms are young and internationalize quickly, skipping some stages of the traditional Uppsala model proposed by Johanson and Vahlne (1977), which explains the internationalization as an incremental process.…”

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Unveiling International New Ventures’ Success: Employee’s Entrepreneurial Behavior

Hernández

2019

Administrative Sciences

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New international ventures have become an important and growing role in the economics of a country. However, it seems that the literature on international entrepreneurship has paid little attention to their employees and their contribution to the success of these firms in international markets. The employee may be a key point in explaining their rapid and fruitful international development, i.e., increasing the international entrepreneurial orientation of the company. Using case study methodology, this investigation aims to unveil the human resource management in international new ventures, complete previous models explaining these organizations, and contribute to a better understanding of their international success. The findings show that the entrepreneurs aim to foster employee entrepreneurial behavior by implementing certain human resource practices.

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Born Globals: (almost) 20 years of research and still not 'grown up'?

Cited by 18 publications

References 74 publications

New ventures in an emerging industry: access to and use of international resources

New ventures in an emerging industry: access to and use of international resources

Contextualization of Evolving Patterns in the Internationalization of Small Firms

Unveiling International New Ventures’ Success: Employee’s Entrepreneurial Behavior

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