Re-discovering International Entrepreneurship from Behind the Facade of the 21st Century

The purpose of this paper is to encourage a dynamic scholarly conversation about international entrepreneurship (IE) with the aim to further the progress of IE research in the years to come. Specifically, three issues are addressed. First, the paper discusses the domain of IE research. Second, the ontological and epistemological assumptions of knowledge creation are addressed. And third, the paper opens the debate over the firm’s age ambiguity in IE. This kind of discourse at the very outset of the paradigm formation will allow IE researchers to avoid divergence and instead allow for convergence of IE research. To aid this scholarly conversation, it is proposed to use two frameworks in order to build IE theory: paradox and metatriangulation.