TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose – In this chapter, we address the lack of sufficient entrepreneurship in multinational enterprises (MNEs) that seek to improve their ability to achieve national responsiveness. The main reason for this deficiency appears to be the transfer of proven routines from the home country, even when it is clear from the outset that these routines will simply not work and will require much more than a quasi-mechanistic ‘adaptation’ to the new environment.Methodology/approach – ConceptualPractical implication – This chapter suggests that MNEs need to close their entrepreneurial deficits in host countries, by allowing novel resource recombinations. These resource recombinations should lead to accessing fully the coveted host country location advantages that triggered entry in these countries and to success in the market place.Originality/value of the chapter – Most of the contemporary international business literature has studied subsidiary entrepreneurship in the context of established affiliates abroad. Here, we argue that entrepreneurship is equally important in the setting of new foreign market entry. We identify entrepreneurial deficits as the main source of MNEs' failure when trying to achieve national responsiveness.
VL  - 6
SN  - 978-1-78052-115-2, 978-1-78052-114-5/1745-8862
DO  - 10.1108/S1745-8862(2011)0000006009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-8862(2011)0000006009
AU  - Grogaard Birgitte
AU  - Verbeke Alain
AU  - Amin Zargarzadeh M.
ED  - Alain Verbeke
ED  - Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann
ED  - Rob Van Tulder
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Chapter 6 Entrepreneurial Deficits in the Global Firm
T2  - Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm
T3  - Progress in International Business Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 117
EP  - 137
Y2  - 2024/05/05
ER  -