... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Literature review Internationalization Success Central and Eastern European firms Export Born global Although internationalization processes and their impact factors have been studied very actively for about five decades, and Central...

... expansion. Although some extant research have been done on the dynamic capabilities of SMEs’ accelerated internationalization–born global (BG) SMEs, no study was, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, carried on the microfoundations underlying this phenomenon. This paper aims to fill this gap...

...Daniel Gulanowski; Nicolas Papadopoulos; Llynne Plante Purpose This paper aims to critically review and integrate the literature available on Uppsala (incremental) and Born Global (rapid) internationalization models and propose an integrative model that applies to both the initial and subsequent...

...Douglas Dow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to respond to Hennart’s (2014) challenge to the existing born global literature. In his challenge, Hennart proposes a simpler explanation of why some firms internationalize earlier and more aggressively than others. However, such a parsimonious...