Towards an integrated and longitudinal life-cycle framework of international entrepreneurship: Exploring entrepreneurial orientation, capabilities, and network advantages overcoming barriers to internationalization

Hamid Etemad ()
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Hamid Etemad: McGill University

Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2022, vol. 20, issue 4, No 1, 503-536

Abstract: Abstract This article consists of five complementary parts. The Introduction portrays the increasing challenges of entrepreneurial internationalization encountered by smaller and younger firms facing highly competitive, difficult, and near-crisis environments. The literature review of the extant internationalization theories, in five related streams, will examine each stream’s benefits, contribution, and difficulties from the evolving perspective of an internationalizing enterprise over the span of its life-cycle, ranging from embryonic to growth and maturing stages. Based on the current and prevailing experience, a longitudinally integrated internationalization framework addressing different aspects evolving over the firm’s life-cycle stages is proposed and its necessary building blocks are discussed. A critical examination of the framework from the perspectives of both the received theory and ongoing practice points to its advantages and opportunity for further complementary scholarly developments beyond this article.

Keywords: The post-COVID pandemic environment; Challenges facing the traditional internationalization theories; Changing characteristic of international entrepreneurship; Firm’s evolving life-cycle stages; Complementary building blocks; Longitudinally integrated internationalization framework; Further improvements beyond this article (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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