Internationalization and innovation: The case of a born global from Brazil

Abstract

The significance of Born Global firms´ study is increasing due to their early internationalization aspects, innovation and economic growth; however, most of existent studies are focused on developed markets. This is the reason why this study is addressed to analyze the internationalization effects on the innovation in a Born Global firm from emerging market. We have used the literature review about innovation, internationalization and Born Global from emerging markets, also an in-depth interview with the founder and the financial/administrative coordinator of a Brazilian Born Global company that have demonstrated a proactive internationalization behavior moving to the United States. The result shows that, the internationalization to a country with stable institutions affects positively the innovation of the firm, providing the possibility of exploring resources, resulting in financial growth, superior knowledge and capabilities. This research contributes for an improved knowledge of the phenomenon in the context of emerging markets. Also, the perspective of institutions in the host country, which determines the firm´s innovation performance and finally, we explore the case of a firm from an emerging economy that moved to a developed country (South-North) to develop new capabilities and maintain its strategy of innovation.

Entrepreneurial Orientation, Knowledge Utilization and Internationalization of Firms

“…The significance of entrepreneurial orientation in the internationalization process was also visible in the studies of Yoon, Kim, and Dedahanov [34] as well as the work by Etemad [19]. Zonta and Amal [106] indicated the importance of innovativeness among all components of entrepreneurial orientation, especially for born global firms. Matiusinaite and Sekliuckiene [107] observed that risk-taking and initiative are regarded as being among the most important determinants in finding international opportunities and increasing the volume of international activities.…”

Decision Factors behind Cisco Networking Hardware Acceptance in Business Environments

“…The authors suggest that innovativeness impacts the perceived ease of use way stronger than the perceived usefulness. As product-related innovativeness is not only integral to the performance of a company [28] but also reported to be among the factors that have a significant impact on its level of internationalization [29], it found its way into business maturity assessment. For instance, Aguiar et al used the Design Science Research method to set up a staged digital transformation capability maturity model that may be taken advantage of to guide managers in enhancing the IT capability of their companies [30].…”

“…At the same time, it should be noted that the specificity of the domain of application may inherently exclude some initial factor or reduce the importance of a given factor after model reconstruction. Thus, it became necessary to set up hypotheses verifying the relationships between the variables originally confirmed as significantly influencing the TAM2 core [4] The impact of previous research suggests that the specificity of the computer networking domain warrants tailor-fitting the structural TAM model with two additional latent variables: The former is crucial in the context of global businesses [28][29][30], which certainly include the high-tech business of network hardware development, and a similar rationale was previously considered in extensions [26,27]. While [27] did not confirm a significant effect on perceived usefulness, we reckon that network professionals are a target group open to technological advances and appreciate most aspects of innovation.…”

Open Innovation and Cocreation in the Development of New Products: the role of design thinking

“…The practice that organizations have adopted for decades to develop new products and services is a model focused on closed innovation, which has been confronted by an opposite practice called open innovation (Carolina Zonta & Amal, 2018;Chesbrough & Crowther, 2006). For Chesbrough and Crowther (2006) and Ketchen, Ireland, and Snow (2007), the concept of open innovation focuses on the search for, mainly done by R&D departments, innovations and innovative resources at external sources through the sharing of resources such as skills, knowledge and technology.…”