Firms' degree of born-globalness, international entrepreneurial orientation and export performance

Olli Kuivalainen; Sanna Sundqvist; Per Servais

doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2007.04.010

Firms' degree of born-globalness, international entrepreneurial orientation and export performance

Olli Kuivalainen^*, Sanna Sundqvist, Per Servais

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Abstract

Despite the recent increase in 'born-global' studies, there has been little research on how the scale and scope of being a born-global firm affects performance: most of the earlier research takes no account either the number of or the distances between the countries on firm or export performance. This article begins with a review of the existing literature on born-globals, and subsequently explores the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and two different born-global strategies, namely true born-global and apparently born-global (born-international), and the effectiveness of these two born-global pathways. The results of our empirical study on 185 Finnish exporting firms show that those that qualified as true born-globals had better export performance. Furthermore, depending on the degree of born-globalness, different dimensions of EO were of importance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	253-267
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of World Business
Volume	42
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2007.04.010
Publication status	Published - 1 Sep 2007
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Born-globals
Degree of internationalization
Entrepreneurial orientation
Performance

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