The value of human capital for the networks of born globals

Sara Melen and Emilia Rovira Nordman

International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 2007, vol. 2, issue 2, 205-219

Abstract: This study explores how a born global firm uses its network to learn during its internationalisation and how human capital influences this learning process. Within born global research, there exists a discrepancy between scholars who regard personal networks to be the most important for born globals' international growth and those who regard business networks as the most important. Based on a longitudinal in-depth case study of a born global within the Swedish biotech industry, our results show that both forms of networks are important but that a born global firm's use of its network differs at various phases in the firm's internationalisation.

Keywords: born globals; human capital; personal networks; business networks; internationalisation; globalisation; learning; Sweden; biotech industry; biotechnology. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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