Social ties and international entrepreneurship: Opportunities and constraints affecting firm internationalization

PD Ellis - Journal of International business studies, 2011 - Springer
International entrepreneurship involves the identification and exploitation of opportunities for
international exchange. Yet little is known about the entrepreneurial methods used for …

Improvised internationalization in new ventures: The role of prior knowledge and networks

N Evers, C O'Gorman - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
How do entrepreneurs identify foreign market opportunities and how do they identify foreign
market (s) and customers? We draw on the concepts of effectuation, improvisation, prior …

Entrepreneurs' social capital and the economic performance of small businesses: The moderating role of competitive intensity and entrepreneurs' experience

C Hernández‐Carrión… - Strategic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary This article analyzes the personal, professional, associative, and
institutional relationship networks in which the entrepreneur is involved and the resources …

An exploratory study of international opportunity identification among family firms

R Zaefarian, TY Eng, M Tasavori - International Business Review, 2016 - Elsevier
This research examines how family firms identify international opportunities. Family firms are
characterised by long-term orientation, being risk averse, and benefiting from familiness …

Supplier-customer engagement for collaborative innovation using video conferencing: A study of SMEs

J Hardwick, AR Anderson - Industrial Marketing Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Co-creation of innovation, as transcending perspective of marketing, is of growing interest in
recent years. Develo** new products through collaboration is recognised as beneficial to …

Building international entrepreneurial virtual networks in cyberspace

T Sigfusson, S Chetty - Journal of World Business, 2013 - Elsevier
We examine how software international entrepreneurs in Iceland use online social network
sites to develop and harness their network relationships. To study these relationships, we …

Local formal interpersonal networks and SMEs internationalisation: Empirical evidence from the UK

B Idris, G Saridakis - International Business Review, 2018 - Elsevier
This article uses data from the UK Longitudinal Small Business Survey (2015) to empirically
test the relationship between local (formal and informal) interpersonal networks and …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of opportunity connectedness on innovation in SMEs' foreign-market relationships

ER Nordman, D Tolstoy - Technovation, 2016 - Elsevier
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use of business networks has grown
significantly during the last decades, partly due to increasingly complex innovation …

[PDF][PDF] Why Do New Ventures Internationalise? A Review of the Literature of Factors that Influence New Venture Internationalisation.

N Evers - Irish Journal of Management, 2011 - iamireland.ie
This paper presents a review of the literature on internationalisation of new ventures, with
particular focus on the factors explaining why new ventures internationalise at inception. The …

Retrospective and prospective learning: Accelerating the internationalization process

M Fletcher, S Harris, RG Richey Jr - Journal of World Business, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper contributes theoretical understanding to the learning processes adopted by firms
for successful internationalization. Drawing from the internationalization process and …