Innovative Born Globals: Investigating the Influence of Their Business Models on International Performance

Abstract

Internationalization is a hot topic in innovation management, whereby the phenomenon of "Born Globals" is still limited to research in the domains of Entrepreneurship and International Management. As business model design plays a key role for Born Globals, we link these two concepts. For this, we propose hypotheses about the influence of efficiencycentered and novelty-centered business model design on international firm performance. To test these hypotheses, we performed a quantitative survey with 252 founders of international companies in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Additionally, we gained further insights through a case study analysis of 11 Born Globals. The results show that business model design matters to international firm performance and the business model design of Born Globals tends to be more efficiency-centered. Based on a multiple ⁄ Int. J. Innov. Mgt. Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com by UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX on 06/26/16. For personal use only.case study, we analyzed business models in a more sophisticated way and derived propositions that yielded in an archetype of a Born Global's business model.

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