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The increasing prevalence of multi-sided online platforms and their influence on international entrepreneurship: The rap...

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

A set of diverse, evolving, and interactive forces are strengthening trends toward the digitization of firms business models and operations at a relatively fast pace and are affecting firms’ operations at relatively micro levels. They are also changing the ecosystems at the macro level through rapid digitization, augmented by the forces of change i...

Strategy integration, sustainable drivers of firm internationalization performance—Moderated by environmental uncertaint...

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

The global environmental uncertainty and the need for an organization to maximize profit and satisfy the interest of wider nonmarket groups/stakeholders in the host market propel and reinforce the need for strategic integration to achieve sustainable internationalization performance. The interest of this article is to examine the relative impact of...

Analysing the factors that influence social media adoption among SMEs in developing countries

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

Social media penetration is on the rise in developing countries and is an important channel of growth for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Many SMEs in developing countries use social media to connect their customers to their products and services. However, the factors that have led the existing SMEs in Africa to adopt or reject social media ne...

Relocation, innovation, and the difference that firm size makes: Insights for global sourcing strategies of SMEs

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

Although small and medium-sized enterprises increasingly utilize global sourcing strategies which involve the spatial relocation of their business activities, little is known about the effects of these strategies on firm performance—particularly firm innovativeness. Here, we analyze if alternative relocation strategies, specifically domestic and in...

The sharing economy and collaborative consumption: Strategic issues and global entrepreneurial opportunities

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and discuss the topics of sharing economy and collaborative consumption (CC) within the domains of global entrepreneurial opportunities, strategic issues, and emerging online businesses. Both topics remain immensely rich and intertwined because of their interdisciplinary perspectives and multifaceted issues. ...

The evolving international entrepreneurship orientations and international entrepreneurship capital in the rapidly chang...

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

The relationship between entrepreneurial orientations and internationalization has been examined extensively, but the recent developments in the rapidly changing environment point to the need for further examination of international entrepreneurs’ orientations in their own embedding contexts and beyond. There is ample evidence suggesting a positive...

Dynamic capabilities in sole proprietorships: theoretical model through grounded theory

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

The purpose of this study is to identify the model that explains the process of creating dynamic capabilities of the sole proprietorships in the music industry. Following the design of the constructivist grounded theory, the cross-sectional study was carried out with 20 sole proprietorships in the music sector, with participants residing in 10 diff...

The emergence of international small digital ventures (ISDVs): Reaching beyond Born Globals and INVs

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

Are born global firms really a “new breed” of exporters? Empirical evidence from an emerging market

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

This study investigates and compares born global (BG) firms and non-BG firms in Malaysia. We employed the multigroup analysis technique with structural equation models to test six hypotheses to determine the differences and similarities between two proposed models of BG and non-BG firms across a wide range of industries. The study reveals differenc...

Towards an integrated and longitudinal life-cycle framework of international entrepreneurship: Exploring entrepreneurial...

Published in Journal of International Entrepreneurship

This article consists of five complementary parts. The Introduction portrays the increasing challenges of entrepreneurial internationalization encountered by smaller and younger firms facing highly competitive, difficult, and near-crisis environments. The literature review of the extant internationalization theories, in five related streams, will e...