Patricia P. McDougall

TL;DR: The formation of organizations that are international from inception is an increasingly important phenomenon that is incongruent with traditionally expected characteristics of multinational enterprises as mentioned in this paper, and a framework is presented that explains the phenomenon by integrating international business, entrepreneurship, and strategic management theory that describes four necessary and sufficient elements for the existence of international new ventures.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework is presented that explains the existence of international new ventures by integrating international business, entrepreneurship, and strategic management theory, and it describes four necessary and sufficient elements for such organizations: organizational formation through internalization of some transactions, strong reliance on alternative governance structures to access resources, establishment of foreign location advantages, and control over unique resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, a reformulated definition of international entrepreneurship is proposed and a model is presented of how the speed of entrepreneurial internationalization is influenced by various forces, such as enabling forces of technology, motivating forces of competition, mediating perceptions of entrepreneurs, and moderating forces of knowledge and networks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the formation process of International New Venture (INV) and find that the formation of an INV is not explained by existing theories from the field of international business.

TL;DR: Reflecting the internationalization of the marketplace and the increasing prominence of entrepreneurial firms in the global economy, the research paths of international business and entrepreneur-shi... as mentioned in this paper ].