Well-trodden highways and roads less traveled: Entrepreneurial-oriented behavior and identity construction in international entrepreneurship narratives

Korhonen, Satu; Leppäaho, Tanja

doi:10.1007/s10843-019-00246-3

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“…The unit of analysis was the manager, director or executive in charge of internationalization decision-making. Consistent with previous studies (Korhonen and Leppäaho, 2019), we also claim that international entrepreneurs (founder managers or chief executives) are an appropriate unit of analysis because they influence the international firm’s performance. Different studies argue that organizational outcomes can reflect top executives’ values and managerial capabilities in the organization.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Zahra et al (2005) highlight that differences in performance arise from the quality of opportunities, their location and modes of exploitation. Despite the relevance of this opportunity-driven behavior, IE and IB scholars draw attention to increasing our understanding of how international opportunities are pursued at an individual-level analysis (Korhonen and Leppäaho, 2019). Specifically, different scholars call for further research to understand better how managers from emerging economies (Kiss et al , 2012) pursue international opportunities under evolving and changing conditions to achieve IP (Tabares et al , 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Impacts of managerial capabilities on perceived international performance: mediating role of international opportunity-driven behavior

Tabares

Tavera

Barrera

et al. 2022

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Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between managerial capabilities, international opportunity-driven behavior and perceived international performance at an individual-level analysis. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual model is tested using data collected from 190 managers of international ventures from Colombia, an emerging economy in Latin America. Partial least squares structural equation modeling is used to analyze the data. Findings The findings reveal that international opportunity-driven behavior of individuals becomes a mediating managerial capability to achieve international performance under evolving and changing conditions. The results show three managerial capabilities are key drivers when pursuing international opportunities. Different from what the internationalization research claims, this study reveals that some hypotheses about the relationship between some managerial capabilities and perceived international performance are not confirmed in the context of an emerging economy. Research limitations/implications The specific limitations of the study open avenues for future research. However, the authors propose five research avenues to improve the generalizability of the results. Practical implications This study provides managers, entrepreneurs and policymakers suggestions. Thus, the authors offer a repertoire of managerial capabilities that emerging market entrepreneurs should develop to pursue opportunities across borders and achieve international performance. Social implications Managers should develop social capital capabilities by establishing networks with other relevant organizations and business partners, both in the domestic and international markets, to leverage enough knowledge that helps them to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness. Originality/value This study contributes to the knowledge by examining international opportunity-driven behavior at an individual-level analysis and bringing emerging economies as new contexts that may enrich the international business and international entrepreneurship literature.

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confidence: 88%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of managerial capabilities on perceived international performance: mediating role of international opportunity-driven behavior

Tabares

Tavera

Barrera

et al. 2022

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“…(2009) represents a primary source of international knowledge and correspondingly highlight entrepreneur backgrounds, values, attitudes, aspirations and the behaviours based on their life experiences. Korhonen and Leppäaho (2019) also verify how CEOs of rapidly internationalising companies make their life experiences count, building evolving IE identities.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…The importance of the entrepreneur in business internationalisation was portrayed more specifically in the study of Vanderstraeten et al (2020). Other themes involve previous international experience of international entrepreneurs (Forcadell and Ubeda, 2020;Jones and Casullo, 2013), the role of education (De Mattos and Salciuviene, 2019;Jafari-Sadeghi et al, 2018;Sułkowski and Patora-Wysocka, 2020), knowledge (Fernhaber et al, 2009;Korhonen and Lepp€ aaho, 2019), human and entrepreneurial capital (Jiao and Robinson, 2011;Salman, 2016;Wach, 2017) and multicultural issues (Dimitratos et al, 2016a;Selmer et al, 2018;Szymanski et al, 2021).…”

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A systematic international entrepreneurship review and future research agenda

Nave

Ferreira

2022

CCSM

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PurposeInternational entrepreneurship (IE) has received a considerable amount of attention in the recent decades as a result of globalization enabling access to new international markets and business opportunities. Despite the growing increase in academic publications, IE still faces certain inconsistencies, with doubts remaining as regards its boundaries and the thematic groups making up the field. The purpose of this article is to systematically analyse the IE, mapping the intellectual territory and the evolution of the field.Design/methodology/approach Indexed to Web of Science( WoS) database until 2021, from 52 journals, 130 articles were selected, applying content analyses techniques to identify the main research lines.FindingsThe results reveal that IE presents four conceptual themes/clusters: (1) international business networks and opportunities; (2) institutional environments; (3) the characteristics and motivations of entrepreneurs; and (4) internationalisation drivers and processes. Extant analysis show that IE has progressed immensely, concentrating a good diversity of subtopics and research trends. An integrative framework bringing together 27 years of publications and 67 future research lines, detailed by cluster, were also presented in this study to improve understanding and guide future studies.Originality/valueThis review makes a broad contribution to the IE literature, assisting in consolidating the academic field, expanding and complementing the results of previous theoretical–conceptual studies. We reflect and individually discuss the state of the art of the four streams that characterize IE to identify key themes, points of convergence and advance new subfields.

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Intellectual framework for knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship

Martins de Paiva,

Rezende da Costa

2024

J Int Entrep

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Well-trodden highways and roads less traveled: Entrepreneurial-oriented behavior and identity construction in international entrepreneurship narratives

Cited by 11 publications

References 94 publications

Impacts of managerial capabilities on perceived international performance: mediating role of international opportunity-driven behavior

Impacts of managerial capabilities on perceived international performance: mediating role of international opportunity-driven behavior

A systematic international entrepreneurship review and future research agenda

Intellectual framework for knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship

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