Despite burgeoning research in international entrepreneurship (IE), very little is known about the processes of how entrepreneurs recognize and pursue opportunities in international markets. To provide an answer to this “opportunity process gap,” we drew on the idea sets framework from the...

Building on the ‘entrepreneuring as emancipation' perspective, I explore the emancipatory potential of social entrepreneurship as a means to disengage individuals enthralled to ideology and trapped by their own past behavior. I studied two former religious-based terrorists from Indonesia, and...

The paper analyses the effect of the stock market on firm innovation through the lens of initial public offering (IPO) using uniquely matched Chinese firm-level data. We find that IPOs lead to an increase in both the quantity and quality of firm innovation activity. In addition, IPOs expand a...

In this paper, I study the effect of access to markets in high-income countries on firms' product innovation in developing countries. To do so, I exploit a reform that exogenously increased market access for firms in the world's largest developing country, China. Applying an instrumental...

Network and graph model is a good alternative to analyze huge collective textual data for the ability to reduce the dimensionality of the data. Texts can be seen as syntactic and semantic network among words and phrases seen as concepts. The model is implemented to observe the proposals of...

In this introduction, we discuss the recent changes in multinational corporations' (MNC) research and development (R&D) strategies and China's rising roles in this new development. Significant changes include: 1) More and more corporations have started overseas R&D operations; 2) the missions of...