Gradually Internationalizing ‘Born Global’ Firms: An Oxymoron?

By Niron Hashai, Tamar Almor. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The export orientation and export performance of high-technology SMEs in emerging markets: The effects of knowledge transfer by returnee entrepreneurs (2009, background): “…studies on the internationalization of smaller firms have been focused on factors explaining why born global companies internationalize (Almor & Hashai, 2004; Autio et al., 2000; Fujita, 1995; Hashai & Almor, 2004; Jones & Coviello, 2005; Knight & Cavusgil, 2004; McDougall, Shane, & Oviatt, 1994).”
International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research (2012, background): “%) of foreign sales to total sales (FSTS) ratio (Zhang et al. 2009; Knight and Cavusgil 2004; Hashai and Almor 2004; Tuppura et al. 2008; Melén and Nordman 2009; Nordman and Melen 2008).”
An Opportunity-Based View of Rapid Internationalization (2012, background): “In addition, Hashai and Almor (2004) find evidence of “gradually internationalizing” bornglobal firms.”
The competitive advantage of early and rapidly internationalising SMEs in the biotechnology industry: A knowledge-based view (2007, background): “It also tries to find out whether any of these modes is superior in terms of firm performance (e.g., Lu & Beamish, 2001) and analyses the relationships between modes and speed of the internationalisation process (e.g., Hashai & Almor, 2004).”
Sequencing the expansion of geographic scope and foreign operations by “born global” firms (2011, background): “This measure reflects the extent of resources directed towards technology creation, and is well accepted in the literature (e.g., Belderbos, 2003; Hashai & Almor, 2004; Zhang, Li, Hitt, & Cui, 2007).”
Bounded entrepreneurship and internationalisation of indigenous Chinese private-owned firms (2008, background): “…firms in China; Ellis (2000) on both Australian and Hong Kong firms; Tyagi (2000) on Indian exporting firms; Child et al. (2002) on Hong Kong firms; Hashai and Almor (2004) on Israeli knowledge-intensive born-global firms; and Mathews (2006) on some Asia Pacific multinational corporations.”
A review of the foundation, international marketing strategies, and performance of international new ventures (2007, background): “, 1992; McAuley, 1999), while others argue the process is sometimes an accelerated, gradual process (Coviello and Munro, 1997; Crick and Jones, 2000; Hashai and Almor, 2004).”
Understanding the drivers of international performance for born global firms: an integrated perspective (2015, background): “…and interpreting the underlying rationales for their formation (Rialp, Rialp, & Knight, 2005), while some work has also examined internationalisation patterns (e.g., Chetty & Campbell-Hunt, 2004; Hashai & Almor, 2004) and the role of networks (e.g., Loane & Bell, 2006; Sharma & Blomstermo, 2003).”