We investigate the rapid internationalization of many multinationals from emerging economies through acquisition in advanced economies. We conceptualize these acquisitions as an act and form of entrepreneurship, aimed to overcome the ‘liability of emergingness' incurred by these firms and to...

Startups partnering with corporations compete with one another for the latter’s attention. Based on an inductive study of concurrent partnerships between startups and one established firm as part of a programmatic initiative of the latter, we explore how startups differ in terms of (i)...

We examine the international new venture - multinational enterprise interface, specifically the extent and nature of entrepreneurial partnering actions undertaken by internationalization-seeking new ventures vis-a-vis MNEs as an internationalization pathway. Based on three longitudinal cases in...

While strategy theory relies heavily on equilibrium theories of economic rents such as Ricardian and monopoly rents, we do not yet have a comprehensive theory of disequilibrium or entrepreneurial rents. We use cooperative game theory to structure computer simulations of the market process in...

Presents an empirical analysis of the contractualdesign of entrepreneurial alliances or collaborative agreements entered into byentrepreneurial firms. First, a series of arguments based on transaction costtheory is used to generate a number of hypotheses regarding the determinants ofthe...