Guest Editorial: International Entrepreneurship: Past, Present, and Future

The role of inward foreign direct investment on entrepreneurship

“…Although international strategies of small and medium firms have also been object of research, traditional theories assume that small and medium firms' internationalization is a natural stage after their domestic growth strategies (Cavusgil 1980;Johanson and Vahlne 1977;. This partially explains why international business and entrepreneurship are two areas of research that have increasingly overlapped only in recent years as research focused on international and global positioning since the early stages of new ventures (Hisrich et al 1996;McDougall and Oviatt 2000). As a result, the established "process theory of internationalisation" (Johanson and Vahlne 1977; has been challenged by the "international new ventures" theory (Oviatt and McDougall 1994).…”

International entrepreneurship research in emerging economies: A critical review and research agenda

“…With the increasing globalization of markets, interest in international entrepreneurship (IE) has grown rapidly over the past two decades (Hisrich et al, 1996;Keupp and Gassmann, 2009;Knight and Cavusgil, 1996, 2004McDougall et al, 1994;McDougall, 1994, 2005;Zahra and George, 2002). A major feature of the global economy during this time has been the liberalization of emerging economies and their integration into the worldwide economy (Aulakh and Kotabe, 2008).…”

How International is Entrepreneurship?

“…Therefore, three major entrepreneurship, two major IB journals, and four major management journals were analyzed for articles with IE content from 1986 to 1990 and for 2000 to 2004. Articles were considered within the domain of IE if "either the entrepreneur or the venture had to cross national boundaries, or the author of the article had to make some international comparisons on entrepreneurial issues," (Hisrich, Honig-Haftel, McDougall, & Oviatt, 1996).…”