New IE Articles

International Business Review – Volume 34, Issue 3.

Special issue on Dynamic Capabilities and International Entrepreneurship

Edited by Christos Pitelis, Catherine L. Wang, Mathew Hughes, Veronique Ambrosini

The Special Issue includes seven articles that address key issues on how organisations can develop and deploy DCs to pursue IE and consequently gain international competitive advantage and improve firm performance. The Abstract of the Editorial accompanying the Special Issue is below.

The dynamic capabilities view (DCV) and international entrepreneurship perspective (IEP) are major, relatively recent advances in international business (IB), strategy, and entrepreneurship. Despite their different disciplinary backgrounds—DCV in evolutionary economics and the resource-based view and the IEP in entrepreneurship and marketing—they share many themes and ideas in common, which have only recently started being acknowledged. In this article, we explore the contribution of, and interrelationship between, the two approaches, their limitations and scope for further development. Key insights include that the DCV helps complement IEP in terms of its focus on value co-creation and the requisite reconfiguration of resources to help bring about value capture. In turn, IEP complements DCV in terms of its exploration of the nature of opportunities and the entrepreneurial capabilities to sense these, and in terms of providing supporting evidence about these capabilities.

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development – Volume 36 (Issue 9-10), pg. 1314-1332. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2313562

Exploring social cognition in an international context: insights from the social representations perspective on legitimacy among French entrepreneurs. 

Ghods, A., Ricard, A., & Aldebert, B.

In the field of international entrepreneurship, there are increasing calls for the study of cognition in its social context. In this regard, this article draws on social representations theory to explore and better understand the cognition of entrepreneurs. The objective of the present study is to explore the social representation of legitimacy among different social groups and show how these collective images vary depending on the context in which entrepreneurs operate. By applying social representations theory to data gathered from a sample of 150 French entrepreneurs, we construct a framework that elucidates social development and the changes that influence entrepreneurs’ decision-making. In addition, this article reveals a new avenue of study in relation to legitimacy from a collective perspective.