Based on a longitudinal case study, we aim to understand how serial entrepreneurs can foster the development of born-global ventures. We consider a born-global start-up as the final stage of the learning process for a serial entrepreneur, advancing propositions regarding the importance of prior...

Objective: To explore the practices that characterize the International Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO) of SMEs who endeavor to reach foreign markets from emerging economies.Research Design & Methods: The multiple case study method analysed data collected through interviews.Findings: The...

In the current context of globalization, entrepreneurship appears as a factor able to address economic and social challenges, contributing to a greater extent to the consolidation of a knowledge-based economy. In these circumstances, entrepreneurship can be seen as a factor of economic growth,...

Venture capital firms predominantly source investments from local networks within tight geographic bounds. Against that pattern, VCs are increasingly investing internationally—but with substantial heterogeneity across firms in extent, location, and success. We propose a mechanism to explain...

This paper investigates two important research gaps in international business (IB): how entrepreneurs evaluate international entrepreneurial opportunities (IEOs) and the role of time in the evaluation process. Drawing on the literature on decision-making models and the philosophical foundation...

We study the effects of globalization on entrepreneurial activities in China, using a favorable change in U.S. trade policy as a plausibly exogenous shock. We find that domestic entrepreneurs in exposed industries benefit more from the shock in financially-developed areas and areas dominated by...

We examine the managerial delegation decisions of foreign entrepreneurs, and assess how these decisions are shaped by characteristics of the local product and labor market environment. We argue that actual or perceived home bias in court proceedings leads foreign entrepreneurs to place little...

Most studies on entrepreneurs' networks incorporate social capital and networks as independent variables that affect entrepreneurs' actions and its outcomes. By contrast, this article examines social capital of the Chinese and Russian entrepreneurs and venture capitalists as dependent variables,...

In many ways, China is the new frontier for entrepreneurship; perceived to be: a logical primary source of economical manufacturing, raw materials, component parts, and as a major end market. China may also represent the most likely future competition for many American industries as well as our...

This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...