International Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Analysis

✍ Scribed by Antonella Zucchella, Paolo Scabini

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last decade, international entrepreneurship has become a key emerging issue in international business studies. A growing number of recent contributions has made the subject topical and lively but it lacks a common framework. This book starts from the foundations of the subject, rooted in entrepreneurship, strategic management and international business studies, and proposes an innovative and integrated interpretative framework. The approach is applied to case studies, in order to reconcile theories and practices of international entrepreneurship.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Foreword......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
1 Theoretical Foundations of International Entrepreneurship......Page 16
1.1 Definitions of International Entrepreneurship......Page 17
1.2 Factors affecting International Entrepreneurship......Page 20
1.3 Research gap......Page 29
1.4 Foundations of International Entrepreneurship: from personal to organizational, from static to dynamic variables......Page 32
1.5 A comparison among different theoretical frameworks......Page 36
2 International Business Studies......Page 39
2.1 Economic decision-based approaches to internationalization......Page 41
2.2 Behavioural and evolutionary approaches to internationalization......Page 50
2.3 The contribution of international business theories and models to International Entrepreneurship......Page 63
3 Entrepreneurship Studies......Page 67
3.1 Entrepreneurship in classical and neoclassical economic literature......Page 69
3.2 The entrepreneur according to the Austrian school......Page 71
3.3 Uncertainty and creativity......Page 77
3.4 Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs......Page 78
3.5 Entrepreneurial orientation in organizations......Page 85
3.6 The contribution of entrepreneurship theories and models to International Entrepreneurship......Page 87
4 Strategic Management Studies......Page 91
4.1 The resource-based view......Page 92
4.2 Dynamic capabilities......Page 97
4.3 Networking approaches: a link between strategic management, international business and organizational studies......Page 100
4.4 Networking in local clusters and entrepreneurship......Page 105
4.5 The contribution of strategic management studies to International Entrepreneurship......Page 107
5 A Theoretical Model for International Entrepreneurship......Page 110
5.1 International Entrepreneurship: the firm’s capabilities and learning processes......Page 114
5.2 Typologies of International Entrepreneurial organizations......Page 118
5.3 Alternative models of International Entrepreneurship......Page 132
5.4 A resources and capabilities-based model......Page 135
5.5 International opportunity scanning and evaluation......Page 137
5.6 International resource mobilization......Page 138
5.7 Dynamic capabilities......Page 139
5.8 International performance......Page 145
6.1 Research questions and methodology......Page 148
6.3 Case study 1: Barrera SRL......Page 154
6.4 Case study 2: Fresenius Medical Care Italy......Page 163
6.5 Case study 3: RC Group SpA......Page 170
Conclusion......Page 181
References......Page 186
Index......Page 211