There is limited theoretical understanding and empirical evidence for how international new ventures legitimate. Drawing from legitimation theory, this study fills in this gap by exploring how international new ventures legitimate and strive for survival in the face of critical events during the...

There is limited theoretical understanding and empirical evidence for how international new ventures legitimate. Drawing from legitimation theory, this study fills in this gap by exploring how international new ventures legitimate and strive for survival in the face of critical events during the...

In this longitudinal study, we explore in-depth how entrepreneurs acquire legitimacy for their new ventures in an attempt to internationalize and survive before and after the dot.com bubble. We adopted a longitudinal multiple-case study methodology for the purpose of theory building. Five firms...

This viewpoint paper develops the major meta-dimensions for bubbles of various types, ranging from the hype and speculative bubbles that sometimes form around some movies to major economic bubbles such as in housing properties and financial assets like stocks. Based on these meta-dimensions, a...

To grow or not to grow? This is not a rhetorical question for Tamara Popa, the co-owner and Executive Director of VM-Plumcom Ltd. Clearly it is the former part of the question that is on Tamara's agenda. The challenge thus is how to grow, a challenge that has been amplified for the last couple...

In this conceptual paper, we employ business model configuration theoretical lenses to explore how firms re-internationalise. Specifically, we discuss various reasons for firms strategic choices to de-internationalise, and put forward, using a business model configuration perspective, respective...

Through business model theoretical lenses, we explore the impact of de-internationalization on firms and their industries and challenges in re-configuring their business models and re-thinking their value propositions in response to de-internationalization. This is a conceptual paper. We put...

This paper aims to contribute towards the advancement of an efficient architecture of a single market for knowledge through the development of an integrative model of knowledge transfer. Within this aim, several points of departure can be singled out. One, the article builds on the call of the...

This article explores firms’ de-internationalisation and re-internationalisation through the lens of business model innovation. The purpose is to uncover the potential of business model innovation to enrich firms’ understanding of the reasons behind de-internationalisation and inspire their...