Journal of World Business – Volume 60 (Issue 40), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2025.101645
Networks for scaling businesses: Accessing international support webs for critical support resources
Bretas, V.P.G., Tippmann, E., Levie, J.
Entrepreneurial ventures benefit from breaking out of structural localism to access external supports as they scale their businesses. However, there is limited theory development on how internationally scaling businesses access external supports. By adopting an entrepreneurial network perspective to study the support system for internationally scaling businesses located in Ireland, we identify an international support web accessed through network mechanisms that break out of structural localism. This study contributes to international entrepreneurship by elaborating on network mechanisms for scaling businesses, in contrast with early and rapidly internationalizing ventures and mature multinational enterprises. It also contributes to international connectivity research by detailing micro-processes for cross-border resource flows.
International Business Review – DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102455
Two decades of research on digitalization, entrepreneurship, and internationalization: What foundations do they provide for research on digital entrepreneurial internationalization?
Sara Fraccastoro, Heini Vanninen, Mika Gabrielsson
The ongoing digital transformation is influencing international entrepreneurship. Current knowledge on that transformation is scattered across various fields. The current research comprises a systematic literature review and a thematic mapping covering the areas of digital internationalization, digital entrepreneurship, and digital entrepreneurial internationalization. Our initial sample consisted of 1138 articles published in 64 journals over 24 years. We contribute to research in the field by mapping out digital entrepreneurial internationalization as an emergent research area, suggesting avenues to advance its theoretical foundations and methodological stances, and analysing the characteristics and various contexts permeating the area.
Global Strategy Journal – DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1522
Leveraging the interplay of digitalization and mobile resources to promote MNE entrepreneurship
Shaker Zahra, Ram Mudambi
Powerful geopolitical, demographic, cultural, and technological forces are reshaping MNEs’ markets, compelling them to be entrepreneurial in order to successfully adapt and grow. We argue that MNEs can leverage digital technologies to exploit their resources, especially mobile resources, to fuel and infuse entrepreneurship throughout their operations. By leveraging and exploiting mobile resources, digital technologies make it possible for MNEs to cultivate their entrepreneurial activities to create new knowledge, build valuable organizational capabilities, and develop new businesses. These arguments contribute to ongoing conversations about the growing role of entrepreneurship in MNEs, the value of mobile resources as a source of competitive advantage, the transformative role of digital technologies in the global marketplace, and IB theories on the sources of MNEs’ competitive advantage in dynamic markets.