Entrepreneurial Internationalization in an Increasingly Digitized and Networked World Economy

Edited by Hamid Etemad, Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada, Natasha Evers, Associate Professor, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Sören Kock, Professor, Department of Management and Organisation and Dean, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

• Contents:1 Introduction 1Hamid Etemad, Natasha Evers and Sören KockPART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS2 Management of tension in coopetition between small andmedium-sized firms 11Henrik Virtanen and Sören Kock3 Top management teams and the internationalization ofSMEs: the importance of team composition and strategicorientations 32Ann Elida Eide and Tage Koed Madsen4 Internationalization of location-bound resources: casesfrom Canada 57Hamid Etemad and Hamed Motaghi5 Fundraising strategies for early internationalizing startups:the dual model approach 83Alberto Onetti and Alessia PisoniPART II FUNCTIONAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTSOF INTERNATIONALIZATION6 Born globals: job creation in young international companies 104Irene Mandl7 What hinders customers in sourcing services internationally? 123Anja Geigenmüller and Norbert Bach8 Women entrepreneurs’ decisions in domestic versusinternational new ventures: a theoretical analysis 142Noor Azlin Ismail and Nurhaya Omar9 Business model options: how to deal with them 165Petri Ahokangas, Irina Atkova, Yueqiang Xu and Marko Juntunen10 Corporate renewal and performance outcome: evidencefrom emerging market located MNCs 184Huu Le Nguyen and Jorma LarimoPART III INTERNATIONALIZATION ACROSSTRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL CONTEXTS11 Digital business model internationalisation: illustrative cases of born global digital companies 208Brian Mac Cathmhaoil, Natasha Evers and Gabriela Gliga12 Two case studies of Irish born globals in the naturalcosmetics industry 233Gabriela Gliga13 International aspects of growth management in eHealthservice start-ups 260Martti Saarela, Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, Matti Muhos and Arto OjalaAfterword: the future of international entrepreneurship 282Hamid Etemad, Natasha Evers and Sören KockIndex