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Book SynopsisProviding cutting-edge material from a range of perspectives on entrepreneurial internationalization, this insightful book develops contemporary business concepts and business models to engage with a rapidly changing and diversifying world economy. Chapters build a conceptual and theoretical illustration of the field, providing key frameworks for the analysis of entrepreneurial internationalization, including insights into strategy and organization, as well as fundraising strategies for early internationalizing startups.
Top international scholars in the field apply these frameworks to specific real-world business environments, such as born globals, born digital enterprises and multinational corporations in emerging markets. The book concludes with analysis of international entrepreneurship across both traditional and digital contexts, highlighting the emerging implications for international entrepreneurship research of digitization and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bringing together a multitude of critical evaluations, this book is crucial reading for scholars and researchers of SME internationalization and born globals, as well as higher level students of international entrepreneurship. It will also benefit practitioners and policymakers hoping to engage with new digital developments in the world economy.
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 1 Hamid Etemad, Natasha Evers and Sören Kock PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2 Management of tension in coopetition between small and medium-sized firms 11 Henrik Virtanen and Sören Kock 3 Top management teams and the internationalization of SMEs: the importance of team composition and strategic orientations 32 Ann Elida Eide and Tage Koed Madsen 4 Internationalization of location-bound resources: cases from Canada 57 Hamid Etemad and Hamed Motaghi 5 Fundraising strategies for early internationalizing startups: the dual model approach 83 Alberto Onetti and Alessia Pisoni PART II FUNCTIONAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONALIZATION 6 Born globals: job creation in young international companies 104 Irene Mandl 7 What hinders customers in sourcing services internationally? 123 Anja Geigenmüller and Norbert Bach 8 Women entrepreneurs’ decisions in domestic versus international new ventures: a theoretical analysis 142 Noor Azlin Ismail and Nurhaya Omar 9 Business model options: how to deal with them 165 Petri Ahokangas, Irina Atkova, Yueqiang Xu and Marko Juntunen 10 Corporate renewal and performance outcome: evidence from emerging market located MNCs 184 Huu Le Nguyen and Jorma Larimo PART III INTERNATIONALIZATION ACROSS TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL CONTEXTS 11 Digital business model internationalisation: illustrative cases of born global digital companies 208 Brian Mac Cathmhaoil, Natasha Evers and Gabriela Gliga 12 Two case studies of Irish born globals in the natural cosmetics industry 233 Gabriela Gliga 13 International aspects of growth management in eHealth service start-ups 260 Martti Saarela, Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, Matti Muhos and Arto Ojala Afterword: the future of international entrepreneurship 282 Hamid Etemad, Natasha Evers and Sören Kock Index
