International Opportunity Recognition among Small and Medium‐Sized Family Firms*

By Tanja Kontinen, Arto Ojala. 2011

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

The Internationalization of Family Firms (2014, background): “Family firm principals though might be able to compensate this negative effect via their rich social capital (Kontinen & Ojala, 2011c).”
Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “…can hinder the “individual cognitive framing of opportunities” mechanism, as shown in a study of Finnish entrepreneurs whose lack of ties in the foreign market tend to hinder perception of internationalization opportunities, even when they have specific industry knowledge (Kontinen & Ojala, 2011).”
Riding the waves of family firm internationalization: A systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda (2020, unknown): “…of family ownership and management have been adopted as proxies for a wide range of FF strategic drivers, including altruism (Zahra, 2003), flexibility (Carr & Bateman, 2009; Kontinen & Ojala, 2011), family-centered goals and SEW preservation (Boellis et al., 2016; Gómez-Mejía et al., 2010).”
A bibliometric analysis of family firm internationalization research: Current themes, theoretical roots, and ways forward (2020, background): “Indeed, the community’s observation of the internationalization of a family firm, from a network perspective, should better distinguish the concept of social capital in families and firms, as well as examine the potential ways to bond and bridge social capital (Kontinen & Ojala, 2011b).”
Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes (2021, background): “For instance, Kontinen and Ojala (2011) referred to alertness as individuals’ receptiveness to opportunities without engaging in a systematic search.”
A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors (2014, background): “One is based on Granovetter’s (1973) literature on the strength of weak ties, which argued that entrepreneurs gather more information when they interact with weak ties than they do when interacting with strong ties (Kontinen and Ojala 2011a, b).”