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Book SynopsisThis impressive
Handbook provides a dynamic perspective on the development of successful born global firms, including evolutionary phases and pathways of growth, emergence of entire born global industries, role of founders' linkages, experience, culture and training, as well as collaboration with large MNEs.
The expert contributors and the editors explore the origin and evolution of born globals and the changing history of this sector. They outline the training involved in developing international intellectual entrepreneurs and study the effects of different cultures on the origin and growth of born globals. The Handbook focuses on the different types of born globals that emerge from the general set of SMEs - ranging from the pure born globals to the born again globals, the born regionals, and their sub group of born again regionals. It also innovatively differentiates these from internationalizing SMEs and international new ventures.
Providing a dynamic perspective on the development of successful born global firms, this book will prove essential reading for researchers and students of international business. Founders of born global firms will also learn about novel management practices, while educational institutions and governments will find invaluable insights on how to foster the emergence of successful born globals.
Trade ReviewThe immense literature on born globals contains a cottage industry of research that includes many different definitions, operationalizations and conclusions. It is time to reflect on what insights we have gained. The editors have really succeeded in putting a highly needed great
Handbook together that presents this at its best. It will stimulate further research. It is an appealing, useful and well crafted end product.
- --Torben Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface PART ONE: BORN GLOBALS: ORIGIN, AND EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH 1. Overview, Background and Historical Origin of Born Globals; Development of Theoretical and Empirical Research Mika Gabrielsson and V.H. Manek Kirpalani 2. Born Global or Simply Rapidly Internationalizing? Review, Critique, and Future Prospects Leonidas C. Leonidou and Saeed Samiee 3. Determinants of Different Types of Born Globals Matthias Baum, Christian Schwens and Rüdiger Kabst 4. Born Global and Born-Again Global Firms: A Comparison of Internationalization Patterns Michael Sheppard and Rod McNaughton 5. The Born Global Dilemma: Trade-off Between Rapid Growth and Control Carl Arthur Solberg 6. An Inquiry into Born Global Firm’s Learning Process: A Case Study of Information Technology-based SMEs Alex Rialp, Inmaculada Galván-Sánchez and Minerva García PART TWO: BORN GLOBALS: RESEARCH AREAS REQUIRING MORE DEVELOPMENT 7. Born Globals: Research Areas that Still Need to be Covered More Fully V.H. Manek Kirpalani and Mika Gabrielsson 8. Born Global Firms’ Use of Networks and Alliances: A Social Dynamic Perspective Susan Freeman 9. Sourcing Networks of Born Global Firms Jukka Partanen and Per Servais 10. Born Global Firms, Internet, and New Forms of Internationalization Rotem Shneor 11. Do Born Global SMEs Reap More Benefits from ICT Use than Other Internationalizing Small Firms? Noemi Pezderka, Rudolf R. Sinkovics and Ruey-Jer (Bryan) Jean 12. An Institutional Perspective on the Strategic Behavior of Chinese New Ventures Huan Zou and Pervez N. Ghauri PART THREE: BORN GLOBALS: DEVELOPING LEADERS, AND TRENDS IN OTHER RESEARCH AREAS 13. Born Globals: Trends in Developing Intellectual Entrepreneur Founders/Managers, and in Other Research Areas V.H. Manek Kirpalani and Mika Gabrielsson 14. International Pathways of Software Born Globals Olli Kuivalainen and Sami Saarenketo 15. Characteristics of Born Global Industries: The Birth of Offshore Renewables Nicolai Løvdal and Arild Aspelund 16. Portuguese Born Globals: Founders’ Linkages, Company Evolution, and International Geographic Patterns Vitor Corado Simões 17. Battleship Strategy for Managing MNC–Born Global Innovation Networks Terhi J. Vapola 18. Successful Born Globals Without Experiential Market Knowledge: Survey Evidence from China Tiia Vissak, Xiaotian Zhang and Kadri Ukrainski 19. Annotated Bibliography for Researchers Index
