Born global firms: The differences between their short- and long-term performance drivers

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal data set (from 1997 to 2005) of newly established Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was analyzed and it was shown that no single strategy is superior per se but that internationalization strategy moderates the relative importance of resources to SMEs' survival in the export market.

TL;DR: This paper developed and tested a model of early performance for born global firms using a mixed-methods approach, combining exploratory interviews and survey data from 310 Australian and New Zealand companies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors utilize the concept of international entrepreneurship culture (IEC) to better understand how INVs advance innovation and dynamic marketing capabilities to succeed in their internationalization activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the dynamics of commitment, growth and survival of newly internationalizing Belgian firms based on an extensive longitudinal data set, and find that global startups have the highest initial and rapidly rising export commitment per market and are also more likely to continue exporting over time than geographically focused start-ups and traditional staged exporters.

TL;DR: The formation of organizations that are international from inception is an increasingly important phenomenon that is incongruent with traditionally expected characteristics of multinational enterprises as mentioned in this paper, and a framework is presented that explains the phenomenon by integrating international business, entrepreneurship, and strategic management theory that describes four necessary and sufficient elements for the existence of international new ventures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the degree of codification and how easily capabilities are taught has a significant influence on the speed of transfer of knowledge and capabilities across country borders.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework is presented that explains the existence of international new ventures by integrating international business, entrepreneurship, and strategic management theory, and it describes four necessary and sufficient elements for such organizations: organizational formation through internalization of some transactions, strong reliance on alternative governance structures to access resources, establishment of foreign location advantages, and control over unique resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors addressed the question of whether firms in a competitive, globally integrated environment face a "liability of foreignness" and to what extent either importing home-country organizational capabilities or copying the practices of successful local firms can help them overcome this liability.