International entrepreneurial culture-Toward a comprehensive opportunity-based operationalization of international entrepreneurship
- Author(s)
- Pavlos Dimitratos, Irini Voudouris, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, George Nakos
- Abstract
Despite the abundance of international entrepreneurship studies, there is a need to develop valid measures of the international entrepreneurship construct. Based on prior conceptual studies, we contribute to the literature by advancing a scale of the international entrepreneurial culture (IEC) that considers opportunity-based behavior; and, aims to capture the overarching context of international entrepreneurship. We followed established scale development practices and conducted a research on UK and US medium-sized firms. Our proposed six-dimensional operationalization of IEC, which sufficiently matches the initial conceptualization, consists of international entrepreneurial orientation; international market orientation; international motivation; international learning orientation; international networking orientation with competitors; and, international networking orientation with non-competitors. The main implication from this study is that international entrepreneurship scholars can use in future research these six dimensions of the encompassing IEC context rather than a confined international entrepreneurship construct.
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- University of Glasgow, Athens University of Economics and Business, Clayton State University, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Journal
- International Business Review
- Volume
- 21
- Pages
- 708-721
- No. of pages
- 14
- ISSN
- 0969-5931
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2011.08.001
- Publication date
- 08-2012
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502016 SME-research
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management, Finance, Marketing
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/international-entrepreneurial-culturetoward-a-comprehensive-opportunitybased-operationalization-of-international-entrepreneurship(a83bcbf5-c32c-4e71-8c48-08a22564b24d).html