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We study international market entry in the context of the Internet, and ask: On what basis do U.S. Internet firms choose the markets that they enter? Our baseline hypothesis is that international market entry decisions are based on balancing perceived risks and returns inherent in a foreign...
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As barriers to globalization have steadily diminished, the number of entrepreneurial and noncommercial expatriates have grown from a trickle to a torrent. Much of what we know about expatriatism may not apply to this new breed of expatriates. A four-quadrant typology of expatriates draws...
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This paper examines the capability antecedents of firm entry into nascent industries. Because a firm's technological investments in nascent industries typically take place at a time before market entry, this study makes a distinction between capability requirements at the time of market entry...
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By definition, de novo industry ventures do not share many market-contact points with incumbents – itself an important source of competitive ‘stability' through mutual forbearance. As such, these ventures are often subject to aggressive retaliation at the outset, which could threaten their...
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The central question that we address is how young technology firms (YTFs) learn about foreign markets when they venture abroad for the very first time. Drawing on learning theory, we develop and test a model for the entry learning and foreign-venture performance of YTF. Our empirical results...
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entrepreneurship, opportunity perception, risk acceptance, and opportunity motivations for entry into entrepreneurship – factors …
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effect of the culture of the country in which the entrepreneurship initiative is developed. Based on a survey of 5076 …
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covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer …
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The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …
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Empirical studies use the assumption of stability in individual risk attitudes when searching for a relationship between attitude to risk and the decision to become and survive as an entrepreneur. We show that risk attitudes do not remain stable but face endogenous adaption when starting a new...
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