International entrepreneurship: The pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities across national borders

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Reuber, A. Rebecca; Knight, Gary A.; Liesch, Peter W.; Zhou, Lianxi
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; Willamette University; University of Queensland; Brock University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-018-0149-5
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 395-406
• 关键词: born global; ecosystem; entrepreneurship; Foreign market entry; international entrepreneurship; international new venture; INTERNATIONALIZATION; Internationalization theories and foreign market entry; opportunity; platform

摘要

In this editorial for the Special Issue on International Entrepreneurship, we interrelate key concepts about the pursuit of opportunities from the entrepreneurship and international business literatures. In doing so, we consider the assessment of opportunities as an individual-level cognitive activity, the construction of opportunity as a firm-level innovative activity and the shaping of opportunity as an institutional-level structuring activity. We then extend the discussion to explore the notion of a distributed, global ecosystem of opportunities and opportunity seekers, which we believe may provide a platform for valuable future research.