This paper offers an analysis of the factors influencing the accelerated internationalisation of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) from emerging economies. This type of firm is typically called “born global”, and they have been reported primarily in high-tech sectors. Existing International...

This study is grounded on the internationalization theories of the firm and discusses how different strategic and operational choices in the international environment can affect firm performance and thus shareholders value. The latter is based on share prices reflecting long term expectations on...

The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between the firms’ ownership and control structure, in particular the presence of foreign capital, and their internationalization levels, measured in terms of intensity and diversification. The international performance of...

Policymakers in several countries have recently taken steps to promote the rapid export expansion of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms, which are often referred to as born globals. These measures are...

Policymakers in several countries have recently taken steps to promote the rapid export expansion of high-tech small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms, which are often referred to as born globals. To the best of...

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...

International new ventures (INVs) and born globals, companies that internationalise from inception, have existed for centuries, but they gained popularity only about 20 years ago. Since then the international entrepreneurship field has been well developed from the entrepreneurship and...

Drawing on international business and CSR literature, we examine how CSR activities influence the level of internationalization of emerging market firms. This study covers listed industrial Chinese firms from 2009 to 2014. Data sources include archival data from the GTA-China Stock Market and...

In this paper, we focus on the internationalization strategies implemented by Middle Size Multinational Enterprises (MMNE) in Chinese markets. We assume that these strategies differs from those of the large multinational companies. Differences explained by the size of the company (medium)...

We study how the country of origin of a firm influences its internationalization, analyzing emerging economy multinational companies (EMNCs) as a laboratory for extending theory. EMNCs have been observed to vary from advanced economy MNCs (AMNCs), suggesting that the home context is the critical...