“…To develop such knowledge and experience they may use a variety of sources, such as travel abroad, foreign language skills, life and work experience, education and business experience abroad, international social links, assistance to international fairs, conducting export market research or by using foreign tourists as an external-market information source (cf. Berbel-Pineda et al, 2018;Chandra et al, 2009;Chetty et al, 2018;George et al, 2016;Hajizadeh & Zali, 2016;Kiss et al, 2019;Kraus et al, 2017;Terán-Yépez et al, 2020b;Zahra et al, 2005). The process of IOR, however, is also influenced by other cognitive aspects such as entrepreneurial creativity, international entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial passion.…”