TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptualizing accelerated internationalization in the born global firm
T2 - A dynamic capabilities perspective
AU - Weerawardena, Jay
AU - Mort, Gillian Sullivan
AU - Liesch, Peter W.
AU - Knight, Gary
PY - 2007/9/1
Y1 - 2007/9/1
N2 - Existing approaches at explaining accelerated internationalization of born global firms are incomplete as they do not capture the learning that is undertaken by these firms and their founders prior to the firm's legal establishment. Building on the extant literature and drawing on the dynamic capabilities view of competitive strategy, this paper presents a conceptual model of born global firm internationalization. We conjecture that a set of dynamic capabilities that are built and nurtured by internationally-oriented entrepreneurial founders enable these firms to develop cutting-edge knowledge intensive products, paving the way for their accelerated market entry. We develop propositions and offer concluding remarks. Crown
AB - Existing approaches at explaining accelerated internationalization of born global firms are incomplete as they do not capture the learning that is undertaken by these firms and their founders prior to the firm's legal establishment. Building on the extant literature and drawing on the dynamic capabilities view of competitive strategy, this paper presents a conceptual model of born global firm internationalization. We conjecture that a set of dynamic capabilities that are built and nurtured by internationally-oriented entrepreneurial founders enable these firms to develop cutting-edge knowledge intensive products, paving the way for their accelerated market entry. We develop propositions and offer concluding remarks. Crown
KW - Accelerated internationalization
KW - Born global
KW - Dynamic capabilities
KW - Knowledge
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34447290483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2007.04.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2007.04.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34447290483
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 42
SP - 294
EP - 306
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 3
ER -