Current Issues in International Entrepreneurship

Edited by Hamid Etemad, Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada, Tage Koed Madsen, Professor of International Marketing, Erik S. Rasmussen, Professor, Department of Business and Management, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Per Servais, Aalborg University, Denmark

• Contents: Introduction: The Emergence of International Entrepreneurship (IE) and its Agents – Selected IssuesHamid Etemad, Tage Koed Madsen, Erik S. Rasmussen and Per ServaisPART I: INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP AND NETWORKS1. Revisiting Aspects of Born Globals: Young Canadian SMEs Growing Rapidly and Becoming Born GlobalsHamid Etemad and Pi-Chu Wu2. Leadership and Organization in Born GlobalsIngemar Wictor, Svante Andersson and Tomas Müllern 3. Social Networks and Inter-organizational Ties of Knowledge-Intensive Firms (KIFs)Diala Kabbara and Antonella Zucchella4. The Process of Commercializing a Medical Technology Innovation for an INV through International Trade Fairs: Combining a Network with a Practice ViewHélène LaurellPART II: INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EMERGING ECONOMIES5. International Entrepreneurship from Emerging Economies: A Meta-analysisMeysam Zolfaghari, Alex Rialp and Witold Nowiński6. Internationalization of SMEs from Transition Economies: Institutional PerspectivesGalina Shirokova and Tatyana Tsukanova7. Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Context: Dynamics of Development of the Locally Owned Generic Pharmaceutical Industry in BangladeshMd. Noor Un Nabi and Utz Dornberger8. The Role of Key Foreign Employees in Successful Development: Do We Need a Wider Research Scope for Internationalization Studies?Tiia Vissak and Xiaotian ZhangPART III: INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: FAMILY, GENDER AND INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATIONS9. The Role of Female- and Male-specific Traits in Entrepreneurial ActivitiesMaryam Khaleghy Baygy, Mohamad Ehsan HajSamadi and Ali Eghtesadi10. Toward an Understanding of How Entrepreneurs Access and Use Networks/Social Capital to Internationalize: A Gender PerspectiveGitte Rosenbaum11. Comparing Entrepreneurial Attributes and Internationalization Perceptions of Business Students in Germany Before and During the Economic CrisisBenjamin Danko, Walter Ruda, Thomas A. Martin, Rubén Ascúa and Wolfgang Gerstlberger12. Conclusion: International Entrepreneurship – Learning Points and ImplicationsHamid Etemad, Tage Koed Madsen, Erik S. Rasmussen and Per ServaisIndex

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