TY - JOUR
T1 - What Happens To International New Ventures beyond Start-up
T2 - An Exploratory Study
AU - Turcan, Romeo V.
AU - Juho, Anita
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - We ground our study within the dynamic capabilities view of the firm and through an inductive theory building research explore continued corporate growth in international new ventures beyond their start-up phase or initial internationalization or whether they actual made-it to that point (phase). This paper should be seen among the first attempts to generate early theoretical constructs to guide international entrepreneurship research in this, under-searched substantive area. Grounded in data, number of constructs emerged related to made-it point or continued corporate growth of international new ventures: strategic experimentation, tensions in organizational gestalt, and legitimacy lies. We conjecture that international new ventures do not reach a made-it point if they only manage to develop substantive capabilities to produce desired outputs at various levels within the venture, but fail to create dynamic capabilities to change and reconfigure existing substantive capabilities.
AB - We ground our study within the dynamic capabilities view of the firm and through an inductive theory building research explore continued corporate growth in international new ventures beyond their start-up phase or initial internationalization or whether they actual made-it to that point (phase). This paper should be seen among the first attempts to generate early theoretical constructs to guide international entrepreneurship research in this, under-searched substantive area. Grounded in data, number of constructs emerged related to made-it point or continued corporate growth of international new ventures: strategic experimentation, tensions in organizational gestalt, and legitimacy lies. We conjecture that international new ventures do not reach a made-it point if they only manage to develop substantive capabilities to produce desired outputs at various levels within the venture, but fail to create dynamic capabilities to change and reconfigure existing substantive capabilities.
KW - International new venture
KW - international entrepreneurship
KW - dynamic capability
KW - critical incident
KW - theory building
U2 - 10.1007/s10843-014-0124-6
DO - 10.1007/s10843-014-0124-6
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 129
EP - 145
JO - Journal of International Entrepreneurship
JF - Journal of International Entrepreneurship
SN - 1570-7385
IS - 2
ER -