Organizational creativity as a crucial resource for building international business competence

Silvio Luis de Vasconcellos, Ivan Lapuente Garrido and Ronaldo Couto Parente

International Business Review, 2019, vol. 28, issue 3, 438-449

Abstract: We aim to elucidate the roles that organizational creativity plays in the development of firms’ international business competence (IBC). We conducted an investigation grounded in the resource-based view of how this intangible resource supports the development of capabilities and competences. We surveyed 77 Brazilian audiovisual SMEs and analyzed our data using OLS regression analysis. The results partially support the hypothesis that organizational creativity is a building block for IBC but show that its effect is mostly exerted through the mediation of some of the dimensions of innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities. This study has implications both for organizations and public policies, contributing to the debate on how firms stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship and how public agents can leverage SMEs’ internationalization process.

Keywords: Organizational creativity; Innovative capability; Entrepreneurial capability; International business competence; Creative firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.11.003

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