Decision-Making in International Entrepreneurship

Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi is a Lecturer in International Business at the Aston Business School, Aston University, United Kingdom.Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji is a Lecturer in Strategy and Business Analytics at the School of Business, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

• Chapter 1. Social Media Usage and Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition among Internationalising SMEs; Emmanuel Kusi AppiahChapter 2. The Perceived ‘Double Disadvantage’ of Gender and Ethnicity: A Capabilities Perspective of Rapidly Internationalising Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the UK; Shiv Chaudhry, Dave Crick, and James M. CrickChapter 3. Decision to Start a New Venture: A Cross-National Study of Social Benefit Systems and Fear of Failure; Kaveh Moghaddam, Thomas Weber, and Amirhossein MalekiChapter 4. When the Family Travels Abroad. Decision-Making and Practices of International Expansion of a Swiss Family Business in the XIX Century; Giuseppe De Luca and Matteo LandoniChapter 5. Innovative Decision-Making and Ambiguity: Women Entrepreneurs Exploring Internationalisation Opportunities; Sundas Hussain, Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani, and Amir DaneshvarChapter 6. Decision-Making in Scaling up Internationalised Start-ups; Faezeh Hanifzadeh, Kambiz Talebi, and Parisa RasoulianChapter 7. Entrepreneurial Decision-making and the Hunt for the “Right” Internationalisation Strategy with a State-owned Enterprise; Irina Nikolskaja Roddvik, Birgit Leick, and Runar GundersenChapter 8. Unveiling Factors Propelling Start-ups towards Entrepreneurial Internationalisation: A fuzzy Multi-layer Decision-making Approach; Fatemeh Yaftiyan, Marziyeh Rassaf, Mohammadjafar Nikimaleki Borchalouei, and Hamide GhahremaniChapter 9. Challenges of Footwear Business Internationalisation in Emerging Economies: A Multilayer Sustainable Decision-Making Approach; Babak ZamaniChapter 10. International Entrepreneurship Opportunity Recognition and Prioritisation in the Industrial Sector of Kish Free Zone: A Multi-layer Decision-making Approach; Hasan Boudlaie, Mohammad Hosein Kenarroodi, Razieh Sadraei, and Vahid Jafari-SadeghiChapter 11. Prioritising SMEs Internationalisation Practices Considering Their Various Interrelating Barriers: A Sustainability and Resiliency Approach; Ali Zamani Babgohari, Danial Esmaelnezhad, and Mohammadreza Taghizadeh-YazdiChapter 12. Toward the Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis Enablers in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Hesitant Fuzzy Approach; Seyyed Mohammadreza Ayazi, Ali Zamani Babgohari, and Mohammadreza Taghizadeh-YazdiChapter 13. Employees Should Care: A Hybrid Study of the Internationalisation Destructive Impacts on SMEs’ Human Resources in an Emerging Economy through Multi-Layer Decision Making Model-Psychological Solutions; AliAsghar Abbassi Kamardi and Sina SarmadiChapter 14. Investigating the Sustainable Aspect of Food Supply Chain and its Effect on International Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study in the Free Economic Zone of Mazandaran; Vida Khaledi, Badrosadat Hashemipour, and Sepehr GheiratmandChapter 15. Sustainability in the Civil Aviation Industry supply chain based on Attracting International Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of a Civil Aviation Company in Iran; Badrosadat Hashemipour and Sayed-Shakoor ShahidiChapter 16. How Does Owners' Personality Impact Business Internationalisation in Family SMEs?; Elaheh Heydari, Mojtaba Rezaei, Marco Pironti, and Federico Chmet