Firms' degree of born-globalness, international entrepreneurial orientation and export performance

Olli Kuivalainen, Sanna Sundqvist and Per Servais

Journal of World Business, 2007, vol. 42, issue 3, 253-267

Abstract: Despite the recent increase in 'born-global' studies, there has been little research on how the scale and scope of being a born-global firm affects performance: most of the earlier research takes no account either the number of or the distances between the countries on firm or export performance. This article begins with a review of the existing literature on born-globals, and subsequently explores the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and two different born-global strategies, namely true born-global and apparently born-global (born-international), and the effectiveness of these two born-global pathways. The results of our empirical study on 185 Finnish exporting firms show that those that qualified as true born-globals had better export performance. Furthermore, depending on the degree of born-globalness, different dimensions of EO were of importance.

Keywords: Born-globals; Degree; of; internationalization; Entrepreneurial; orientation; Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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