How International is Entrepreneurship?

Abstract

Nine major entrepreneurship, international business (IB), and management journals used by the Financial Times to rank business schools were examined to see if the amount of international entrepreneurship (IE) research published in major entrepreneurship, IB, and management journals is increasing over time. Findings from two time periods spaced a decade apart indicate that although IE content more than doubled in the entrepreneurship journals, only a modest increase occurred in the international business journals and no increase occurred in the management journals. We proposed and found that: (1) entrepreneurship journals tend to favor replication studies while IB and management journals prefer nonreplications; and (2) because replication is straightforward while nonreplication is more difficult to conceptualize and execute, there are many more replication than nonreplication IE studies. As a result, IE studies appear more frequently in entrepreneurship journals. Managerial and scholarly implications are discussed.

The emergence, advance and future of international entrepreneurship research — An introduction to the special forum

“…Wright and Ricks (1994) called for researchers to examine international business issues in an integrated multidisciplinary way while Young et al (2003) called for more focus on the environmental and institutional approaches as well as innovation and resource-based perspectives. They also expressed concerns, similar to Gamboa and Brouthers (2008) that the international aspect of IE may become taken for granted. Etemad (2004) described IE as a complex adaptive system incorporating multiple levels of interaction between the entrepreneur, firm, market and environment, to which various theories apply.…”

“…For example, although IE research has emerged, in part, from studies of small firm internationalization, this type of research does not necessarily incorporate theoretical frameworks or insights specific to entrepreneurship. Thus, comparisons of small firm and large firm behaviour (as discussed by Gamboa and Brouthers, 2008) are not the same as research on entrepreneurial activity during internationalization, or research on entrepreneurship across international contexts. We also believe that to review the field, it is important to assess it in a manner that is first, focused on research at the intersection of international business and entrepreneurship and second, as comprehensive and rigorous as possible.…”

La théorie de l’« entreprise à internationalisation rapide et précoce » à l’épreuve des faits

“…Par ce geste, l'Academy of International Business affirmait que cet article représentait l'un des articles (si ce n'est l'article) fondateurs de la recherche en « entrepreneuriat international » (Autio, 2005 ;Zahra, 2005). La publication de ce texte théo-rique a ouvert la voie à de nombreux développements conceptuels (Rialp, Rialp et Knight, 2005 ;Gamboa et Brouthers, 2008 ;Keupp et Gassmann, 2009, pour des revues de littérature récentes), mais surtout à d'importants travaux empiriques dont les conclusions sont nécessaires pour donner une réelle postérité à ces propositions théoriques. En effet, pour reprendre l'argument de Williamson (2000), ce sont les travaux empiriques qui confèrent (ou non) une validité scientifique à un modèle théorique, qui font que certains deviennent des « success stories ».…”

A conceptual study of immigrant born globals and their multinationalization process

“…Some IE scholars have inquired why some new ventures opt to go international, while many others opt to (or are forced to) focus on the domestic market Zahra 2005;Gamboa and Brouthers 2008). They have found that prior domain knowledge and international experiences of the founders and their professional hires, and the level of industry's global integration, positively influence early internationalization (McDougall et al 2003).…”