Re-thinking research on born globals

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Coviello, Nicole
• 署名单位: Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Turku
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2014.59
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 17-26
• 关键词: internationalization theories and foreign market entry; entrepreneurship; born global; international new venture; Decade Award

摘要

Knight and Cavusgil's Journal of International Business Studies Decade Awardwinning article offers numerous contributions to international business research. As one example, it advances cross-disciplinary conversation about entrepreneurial internationalization. A critical review of their study reveals, however, that certain findings require reinterpretation. This commentary does so, discussing the resultant implications and the question of when it is (in)appropriate to use the term born global. Parts of Knight and Cavusgil are then used as a foundation to identify research questions at the level of the firm. Finally, points from Cavusgil and Knight's retrospective are used to argue that we need greater understanding of the individual(s) that are central to the firm's internationalization behaviour. Suggestions for research are made by drawing on concepts and theory from the entrepreneurship, innovation and psychology literatures.