Four Essays On International Entrepreneurship (essays On Supply Chain Management)

Internationalization of business activities has become one of the main fields of interest in management research, influencing a broad range of academic areas such as strategic management, organizational science, operations management or economic institutions. In recent years the pace of internationalization has even increased. With his four essays on distinctive levels of International Entrepreneurship, Gordian R?¤ttich provides an answer on some of the most essential challenges for entrepreneurial firms and shows how social groups, economic institutions and nations manage to overcome the challenges of internationalization and gain competitive advantages. Cover......Page 1 Essays on Supply Chain Management......Page 3 Four Essays on International Entrepreneurship......Page 4 ISBN 9783834931634......Page 5 Foreword......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Table of Contents......Page 10 List of Figures......Page 14 List of Tables......Page 16 List of Abbreviations......Page 18 I Introduction......Page 20 II Going Global Early: Liabilities of Foreignness and Early Internationalizing Firms......Page 26 1 Introduction......Page 27 2 International Expansion......Page 28 3 Systematic Literature Review......Page 32 3.2 Multinationality......Page 35 3.3 Speed......Page 36 3.4 Mode of Entry......Page 37 4 Antecedent Firm Characteristics and Early Internationalizing Firms......Page 41 4.1 Firm-specific Advantages......Page 42 4.2 Country and Industry-specific Pressures......Page 48 5 Discussion......Page 54 6 References......Page 58 III Performance Measurement and Antecedents of Early Internationalizing Firms: A Systematic Assessment......Page 70 1 Introduction......Page 71 2 Overview of Early Internationalization......Page 72 3 Methodology......Page 75 4 Analysis and Discussion of Systematic Assessment Results......Page 77 4.1 Performance Measurement......Page 80 4.2 Antecedents of EIF Performance......Page 86 5.1 Performance Measurement......Page 91 5.2 Performance Antecedents......Page 93 6 Conclusion and Limitations......Page 98 7 References1......Page 100 8 Appendix......Page 108 IV Impact of Institutional Coordination on National Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework......Page 110 1 Introduction......Page 111 2 Conceptual Overview......Page 114 2.1 Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Coordination......Page 115 2.2 Network Perspective......Page 118 3 Institutional Coordination and Entrepreneurship......Page 120 3.1 The Network Perspective on Institutional Coordination and Entrepreneurship......Page 121 3.2 Correlation between Institutional Coordination Index and National Entrepreneurship......Page 124 4 Examination of Institutional Coordination Impact on Entrepreneurship Process......Page 127 4.1 Conception Phase: Impact of Education and Training Systems......Page 128 4.2 Gestation Phase: Impact of Governance Systems/Financial Systems......Page 130 4.3 Infancy Phase: The Impact of Industrial Relations......Page 132 4.4 Infancy Phase: The Impact of Interfirm Relations......Page 134 4.5 Adolescence Phase: The Impact of Institutional Complementarities......Page 136 5 Conclusion......Page 138 6 References......Page 141 V Global Organizational Design in Purchasing and Supply Management: Headquarters and Subsidiaries in a Contingency Perspective......Page 150 1 Introduction......Page 151 2 Conceptual Framework......Page 152 2.1 Global Sourcing Strategy and its Implementation......Page 153 2.2 Global Sourcing Organizational Design......Page 154 2.3 Sourcing-related Contextual Factors......Page 156 3.1 Research Design......Page 160 3.2 Data Collection......Page 163 3.3 Data Analysis......Page 164 4.1 Formalization......Page 165 4.2 Communication......Page 166 4.3 Information Management Systems......Page 167 4.4 Control......Page 168 4.5 Socialization......Page 170 5 Implications......Page 171 6 Limitations and Further Research Directions......Page 172 7 References......Page 174 VI Final Conclusion......Page 182 Internationalization of business activities has become one of the main fields of interest in management research, influencing a broad range of academic areas such as strategic management, organizational science, operations management or economic institutions. In recent years the pace of internationalization has even increased. With his four essays on distinctive levels of International Entrepreneurship, Gordian Rättich provides an answer on some of the most essential challenges for entrepreneurial firms and shows how social groups, economic institutions and nations manage to overcome the challenges of internationalization and gain competitive advantages.