The Impact of Interorganizational Imitation on New Venture International Entry and Performance

Fernhaber, Stephanie A.; Dan, Li

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6520.2009.00365.x

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“…Another example is Vaaler's analysis of how immigrant remittances can affect country-level attributes like startup rates, capital availability and openness to international trade (Vaaler 2011). Given the imitation among geographically adjacent firms in pursuing international opportunities (e.g., Fernhaber & Li, 2010), an important research question for scholars is whether and how firms that pursue international opportunities may change the nature of their local or regional context.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There may also be variance with respect to perceptions of opportunities: the entrepreneurship literature points out that decision-makers perceive market opportunities imitatively or innovatively and this affects the way that a firm enters a market (Cliff, Jennings, & Greenwood, 2006). The reporting of imitative behavior in internationalization among resourceconstrained firms (e.g., Fernhaber & Li, 2010;Oehme & Bort, 2015) suggests that small and young firms may be able to pursue international opportunities in ways that do not require the highly innovative behavior and risk-taking attitudes that have been linked to internationalization in studies of entrepreneurial orientation (see Brouthers, Nakos, & Dimitratos, 2014;Covin & Miller, 2014).…”

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Beyond categorization: New directions for theory development about entrepreneurial internationalization

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Categorizations emphasizing the earliness of internationalization have long been a cornerstone of international entrepreneurship research. Here we contend that the prominence of categories has not been commensurate with theory development associated with them. We draw on categorization theory to explain why earliness-based categories are persistent, and argue that a greater focus on notions related to opportunity can open new avenues of research about the entrepreneurial internationalization of business. We propose and discuss three directions for opportunity-based research on entrepreneurial internationalization, involving context, dynamics and variety.

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“…Knowledge from network partners can help overcome liabilities of foreignness (Schwens & Kabst, 2009), and the tacit knowledge learned in business relationships can stimulate rapid and early internationalization (Fernhaber & Li, 2010;Forsgren, 2002;Schwens & Kabst, 2009). Firms can also acquire knowledge externally from specialist organizations such as export intermediaries (Peng & Ilinicth, 1998) or other commercial and government sources (Leonidou & Adams Florou, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This is augmented with new knowledge acquired during the start up process, an experiential learning process which Huber (1991) calls 'congenital learning'. Inherited and accumulated knowledge can become outdated or irrelevant and sufficiently impair performance (Anand et al, 2002;Fernhaber & Li, 2010;Reuber & Fisher, 1997).…”

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Knowledge acquisition for the internationalization of the smaller firm: Content and sources

Fletcher

Harris

2012

International Business Review

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Knowledge Acquisition for the Internationalization of the Smaller Firm: Content and SourcesInternationalization process research emphasizes accumulated experience and networks as sources of knowledge for internationalization. Our understanding, however, as to what this knowledge is in practice for smaller firms, the challenges they face in acquiring it, and how they address those challenges is limited. Integrating organizational learning concepts with our theoretical understanding of the small firm internationalization process, we develop a new framework for understanding knowledge acquisition processes, which are examined with a case study of ten Scottish internationalizing firms. We find smaller firms may not have relevant experience or useful networks, and rely on sources rarely recognised before. Firms used recruitment, government advisors and consultants to acquire indirect experience. Recruitment is a source of market and technological knowledge and government advisors and consultants a source of internationalization knowledge. Accessing internal information is important for firms that have internationalized. Our integrated theoretical framework identifies knowledge content and sources that are critical for internationalization, but that may be absent.

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“…The study of these authors is one of the few that looked at this phenomenon through the time series. Also, Fernhaber and Li (2010) confirmed the positive influence of business internationalization in the early stages of the entrepreneurial process onto the sales growth. Their research was carried out with the companies from the United States of America.…”

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Business Internationalization - Conditio Sine Qua Non of Entrepreneurial Venture Success

Bobera¹,

Leković²

2017

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The incentive for launching an entrepreneurial venture determines also the entrepreneur’s striving towards the growth of the venture, development of innovation or business internationalization. Assessment and understanding of outcomes of the launched entrepreneurial venture is possible if one have insight into both endeavor and motivation of an entrepreneur towards expressed entrepreneurial initiative. Entrepreneurs as holders of the entrepreneurial process based on recognition and profitable exploitation of identified opportunities, often find possibilities of venture growth outside the borders of their country. Internationalization of business is available to new established entrepreneurial ventures. Using available technologies, innovative products/services and available market, they find potential for entrepreneurial venture growth outside the framework of national economies. Therefore, the subject of this paper is analysis of the impact of the business internationalization on entrepreneurial venture, observing it towards maturity stage of entrepreneurial ventures. The aim of this paper is to determine relationship between business internationalization and maturity of entrepreneurial venture. For the purpose of analysis of interaction between the observed variables, database of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor has been used. For statistical analysis Spearman's correlation coefficient has been used. The results of statistical analysis confirmed a positive correlation between the level of business internationalization and maturity of the entrepreneurial venture. Also, a positive correlation has been confirmed between the level of education and business internationalization. Within this relationship, higher degree of entrepreneurial education simultaneously means a higher degree of business internationalization

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The Impact of Interorganizational Imitation on New Venture International Entry and Performance

Cited by 95 publications

References 88 publications

Beyond categorization: New directions for theory development about entrepreneurial internationalization

Beyond categorization: New directions for theory development about entrepreneurial internationalization

Knowledge acquisition for the internationalization of the smaller firm: Content and sources

Business Internationalization - Conditio Sine Qua Non of Entrepreneurial Venture Success

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