European Business Review: Volume 26 Issue 5

International new ventures: rapid internationalization across different industry contexts

Svante Andersson, Natasha Evers, Olli Kuivalainen

The purpose of this article is to, first, offer insights into the relationship between industry idiosyncrasies and international new ventures (INVs), and then present a research…

Is more always better? Risk trade-offs among internationalizing new ventures

Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Patricia P. McDougall-Covin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how ventures manage the negative returns associated with higher levels of internationalization. Many new ventures are…

The internationalization strategies of rapidly internationalizing high-tech UK SMEs: Planned and unplanned activities

Dave Crick, James Crick

The purpose of this paper is to investigate aspects of causation and effectuation decision-making in respect of the planned and unplanned nature of the internationalization…

The role of formal industry clusters in the internationalization of new ventures

Ana Colovic, Olivier Lamotte

The purpose of this study is to investigate the internationalization of international new ventures (INVs). Specifically, this research explores the ways in which a formal cluster…

The continued internationalisation of an international new venture

Sara Melén Hånell, Emilia Rovira Nordman, Dharam Deo Sharma

This paper aims to explore longitudinally a life sciences international new venture’s (INV’s) development of foreign market knowledge (FMK) and how this knowledge development…