 Explaining born globals: an organisational learning perspective on the internationalisation processLars Bengtsson International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 2004, vol. 1, issue 1, 28-41 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to suggest a development of the traditional internationalisation model based on the organisational learning theory in order to explain internationalisation processes of so called "born globals". In the new internationalisation model that is proposed here, the propensity, speed, intensity and direction of the internationalisation of a firm will be determined both by the context, the internationalisation actions of other firms, and by the firm's ability to learn from direct personal experience as well as from the prior internationalisation experiences of the founders and other persons and firms. The internationalisation actions by other firms mainly provide the individual firm with objective foreign market knowledge through searching and noticing and vicarious learning. The firm acquires experiential foreign market knowledge through three different learning processes: congenital learning, grafting and experiential learning. Keywords: born global; internationalisation process; organisational learning; knowledge acquisition; foreign markets; SMEs; international new ventures; small business. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:1:y:2004:i:1:p:28-41 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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