“…Example items are foreign business knowledge (i.e., knowledge about competitors; about foreign clients; distribution channels; and about effective marketing), institutional knowledge (i.e., foreign business laws and regulations; about host government agencies; and about language and norms), and internationalisation knowledge (i.e., business experience; ability to deal foreign business contracts; and managing international operations). Opportunity recognition capabilities were measured by opportunity exploration capability (four items) (Cohen & Winn, 2007;Corbett, 2005;Wei et al, 2011), and opportunity exploitation capability (four items) (Ko & Butler, 2006;Lubatkin et al, 2006;Pacho, 2018). Example items of opportunity exploration capability are "continuously explore new markets and new opportunities", "driven by the perception of opportunity while not constrained by the resources at hand", "continuously try to discover additional needs of our customer of which they are unaware", and "search for opportunities in areas where customer have a difficult time expressing the needs" (Wei et al, 2011, p. 13).…”