Journal of World Business – Volume 59, Issue 6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101584
Advantages of foreignness and accelerator selection: A study of foreign-born entrepreneurs
Mohammad Fuad, Mohsen Mohaghegh, Shavin Malhotra,
Foreign-born entrepreneurs are crucial for new ventures and regional growth. A key driver of their success is selection into business accelerator programs. We theorize that foreign-born founders with local residency and work experience are more likely to be selected by these programs. However, the institutional distance between an entrepreneur’s host and the birth country reduces their likelihood of selection, whereas the entrepreneurial development of the host country increases it. We also examine the conditional effect of market learning capability. Evidence from 611 ventures in OECD countries supports our hypotheses, underlining the complex impact of foreignness on accelerator selection.
Journal of World Business—Volume 59. Issue 5, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101554
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens
Robert J. Pidduck, Daniel R. Clark, Yejun (John) Zhang,
The development of an entrepreneurial strategic orientation is of growing concern for global corporations. Through a human capital lens, we probe how and when firms can develop and cultivate managerial entrepreneurial resources; by explicitly encouraging cross-cultural experiences that stimulate systematic shifts in mindset and behavior. Drawing on paradox theory and intercultural psychology, we put forth a model positing that cross-cultural experience (an endowment firms can either hire for or facilitate themselves) develops managerial entrepreneurialism—consisting of (a) venture ideation, (b) opportunity recognition, and (c) entrepreneurial behavior—through the intervening mechanism of a paradox mindset. As a boundary condition we uncover that paradox mindset formation partially hinges on home cultural tightness-looseness. We employ three distinct experiments on multinational samples of individual professionals (n = 506), active entrepreneurs (n = 370), and current managers in global firms (n = 288) to test our theorizing. Finding general support for our model, with analyses yielding important theoretical and practical implications from non-findings too, we conclude that a paradox mindset is a necessary, but not de facto, mediating step between cross-cultural experience and the cultivation of entrepreneurial managers. We also find that paradox mindset formation is conditional and related to home cultural tightness-looseness.
Journal of International Entrepreneurship – Volume 22, pg 1–29, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-017-0213-4
Exploring the intellectual structure of research on ‘born globals’ and INVs: A literature review using bibliometric methods
García-Lillo, F., Claver-Cortés, E., Úbeda-García, M., et al.
The present research paper shows the results of an analysis of the existing literature on one of the topics that has sparked the most interest amongst scholars and researchers in the fields of international management and entrepreneurship: born global firms and international new ventures (INVs). Concretely, with the aim of identifying and visualising the intellectual structure of research on this phenomenon, a total of 124 research papers whose titles contain the above terms are analysed. The methodology is mainly based on the bibliometric techniques of document citation and co-citation analyses and the analysis of social networks (SNA).