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International entrepreneurship and the small business
FLETCHER, Denise Elaine
2004In Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 16, p. 289-305
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Keywords :
small business; international entrepreneurship; opportunity enactment; creative envisioning; social construction; transformation
Abstract :
[en] The topic of ‘international entrepreneurship’ is becoming increasingly popular with researchers concerned with examining how international and entrepreneurial activities intersect when people in organizations engage in pro-active brokering and risk-taking behaviour in cross-border contexts. Some caution is needed in over-generalizing the meaning and significance of international entrepreneurship – especially in relation to small businesses. Not all entrepreneurial risk-taking, brokering and opportunity-seeking activities lead to internationalization (as the statistics on small business international activities indicate). This might suggest then that the only truly internationally entrepreneurial firms are those that are ‘born global’. However, their entrepreneurial activities are more ‘spatial’, concerned with what can be constructed again in relation to global markets rather than in relation to the local/regional context in which the business is located. For small firms that internationalize a few years after start-up (late starters), processes of international entrepreneurship are different. For ‘later starters’, international entrepreneurship is distinctive in that it is characterized by extending and modifying entrepreneurial understandings and practices that have been socially constructed in relation to the local and regional context in which the small firm is located.
Disciplines :
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory
Author, co-author :
FLETCHER, Denise Elaine  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA)
Language :
English
Title :
International entrepreneurship and the small business
Publication date :
July 2004
Journal title :
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
ISSN :
0898-5626
eISSN :
1464-5114
Publisher :
Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom
Volume :
16
Pages :
289-305
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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