Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (2026)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2026.2618054
Navigating international entrepreneurship while impacting regional development in the digital age
Veronica Scuotto and Theofilos Tzanidis
The study explores how international enterprises navigate expansion in other markets simultaneously contributing to the regional development. Such international enterprises use digital platforms and disruptive technologies to transform their business models. Digital platform adoption and technological integration accelerate internationalization efforts and facilitate regional economic growth. A new theoretical framework is built upon international entrepreneurship orientation and network capability, inductively evaluating a group of international enterprises located in the United Kingdom and Italy. This framework offers new insights and trends based on our emerging concepts such as 1. International attitude, cultural value and global orientation; 2. Digital business model driven towards internationalization; 3. Network and digital ecosystem integration, and 4. Multiplier effects for Regional Growth. Entrepreneurs and managers should strongly consider the development of these new concepts in expanding their business in global market. This also facilitated by the adoption of digital platforms that request an entrepreneurial orientation to handle a greater market uncertainty and diversity. being more digital.
Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2026)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2026.e00615
When cultural distance meets international entrepreneurship: The inverted U-shaped impact of cultural distance on crowdfunding transactions between countries
Mohammad Hossein Tajvarpour
The influence of cultural distance on crowdfunding transactions for innovative projects has been relatively neglected in scholarly discourse. Past investigations have focused either on the beneficial effects of a cultural premium or on the adverse impacts of a cultural discount. This article contributes to international entrepreneurship by examining the overall impact of cultural distance on crowdfunding transactions while simultaneously incorporating both the cultural premium and cultural discount frameworks. The analysis is conducted using a structural gravity model. It focuses on how two concurrent mechanisms operate in crowdfunding for innovation: cultural premium, in which distant cultures are perceived as novel, and cultural discount, in which these cultures are difficult to comprehend. A certain level of cultural dissimilarity may enhance a project’s perceived novelty, but beyond that point, the cognitive distance between cultures grows so large that it impedes mutual understanding. Arguing that increases in cultural distance accentuate cultural novelty and attenuate cultural understandability, the multiplicative interplay of these two forces creates an inverted U-shaped relationship between cultural distance and intercountry crowdfunding transactions. An analysis of 3906 country pairs encompassing 11,710,692 Kickstarter transactions supports an inverted U-shaped relationship.