Ignorance and International Entrepreneurship. Two Sides of a Blade in the Decision to Enter a Foreign Market

Author(s):  
Bob Bastian ◽  
Antonella Zucchella
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hoang Tien

This paper outlines the history of the development of Vietnamese business and Vietnamese businessmen and entrepreneurs community in Poland. This special period of history of development was to be divided into two main phases. In addition, this article has analyzed the factors affecting international entrepreneurship spirit and international entrepreneurship capacity of this Vietnamese business community here in Poland. These factors are well identified in the overview part of international startups and international entrepreneurship study. The study showed that these factors include: foreign market appeal, government policies, compatibility of business practices, and adaptability to foreign markets. In the research part of this article, these factors were taken to be reanalyzed for the Vietnamese business community in Poland and showed why Vietnamese people choose Poland to be a good place for family settlement and for doing long-term business. Moreover, the success factors and success barriers behind their business development compared to the community of Chinese businessmen and entrepreneurs who came to Poland just only several years later have also been clearly identified. The research results show that, to strengthen the position and to raise the business awareness of Vietnamese business community in Poland, to strengthen it into a more developed and unified community for the purpose of future sustainable development, Vietnamese embassy in Poland with all of its networks of partnership, Vietnam's foreign trade promotion and trade representative agencies, and the diverse Vietnamese associations in Poland, both for profit and non-profit, need to play an interactive role to support Vietnamese businessmen and entrepreneurs to understand indigenous business practices, to overcome language and culture barriers in a bid to better integrate with the Polish business and social environment.  


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 4685
Author(s):  
İpek Kurt ◽  
Hürriyet Bilge

In recent years, the rapid development of the communication Technologies, the World trade which is developing and becoming easy with globalization, have been pushing the firms to the international trade. The entrepreneurship activities of the firms are not only cover their operating business in foreign market but to discover and evaluate all kinds of cross-border opportunities as well. The research was applied above the small-scale and large-scale businesses which are active along the Manisa Organized Industrial Zone. The goal of the research is the researching the effects of the international entrepreneurship activities to the export market performance. In this context, the research has carried out above the 120 people who give clear answer to the 200 questionnaire and who work in the departments of the foreign trade of the firms. On the result of the questionnaire, it is analyzed that whether the data set available for the factor analysis or nor and 8 factor are obtained. However, the 8th Factor couldn’t be created because of containing 2 variance. After that, one-way variance analysis and correlation analysis are applied to the data set. On the result of the research, it is seen that there is a relationship between export market performance and sub-dimension of international entrepreneurship in different ways and strengths. ÖzetSon yıllarda iletişim teknolojilerinin hızlı gelişimi, küreselleşmeyle birlikte kolaylaşan ve gelişen dünya ticareti, firmaları uluslararası ticarete itmektedir. Firmaların uluslararası girişimcilik faaliyetleri, sadece dış pazarda işletme açmalarıyla ilgili olmayıp her türlü sınır ötesi fırsatları keşfedip değerlendirmelerini kapsar. Araştırma Manisa OSB’de faaliyet gösteren orta ve büyük ölçekli işletmeler üzerinde uygulanmıştır. Araştırmanın amacı, uluslararası girişimcilik faaliyetlerinin ihracat pazar performansına etkilerinin araştırılmasıdır. Bu bağlamda araştırma firmaların dış ticaret departmanlarında çalışanlara dağıtılan 200 ankete sağlıklı cevap veren 120 kişi üzerinde uygulanmıştır. Anket sonucunda veri setinin faktör analizi için uygun olup olmadığı incelenmiş ve 8 faktör elde edilmiştir. Ancak sekizinci faktör 2 değişkeni içerdiği için oluşturulamamıştır. Veri setine daha sonra tek yönlü varyans analizi ve korelasyon analizi uygulanmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda ihracat pazar performansı ve uluslararası girişimcilik alt boyutları arasında çeşitli yön ve kuvvetlerde ilişki olduğu görülmektedir.


2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-440
Author(s):  
Sérgio Rezende ◽  
Kátia Galdino ◽  
Bruce Lamont

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish a conversation between international business and international entrepreneurship literatures by analyzing if and how international opportunities are related to the internationalization process of the firm. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports finding from a backward-looking longitudinal, qualitative, embedded case study of an internationalized Brazilian firm, covering all 13 foreign markets where the firm has operated over 18 years. Findings Modal shifts within foreign markets were rare. Over time, the firm learned how to refine, rather than change, the servicing modes within each foreign market; it also learned how to better develop internal and exploitative opportunities, manage a portfolio of servicing modes across foreign markets, and use more complex mode servicing packages. Overall, international opportunities and the internationalization process of the firm were inextricably connected. Research limitations/implications The authors acknowledge limitations related to the statistical generalizability of the research method and suggest that statistical validation is needed as the research on opportunities and the internationalization process of the firm progresses. Practical implications Internationalizing firms should carefully consider the choice of entry mode in foreign markets. They should also understand that learning is not necessarily associated with change. Originality/value The authors show that the internationalization process of a traditional firm can be analyzed through an opportunity lens. This means associating characteristics of international opportunities with mode continuation and modal shifts in all foreign markets where the firm operates.


2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gadaf Rexhepi ◽  
Veland Ramadani ◽  
Amir Rahdari ◽  
Grisna Anggadwita

Purpose This paper aims to emphasize the importance of crafting and selecting business models and strategies of family business in the process of internationalization. Design/methodology/approach Based on literature review about international entrepreneurship, strategic management, models and strategies of internationalization, a new conceptual framework on family businesses internationalization is provided. Findings Family businesses, depending on their size, use different models and strategies to internationalize their activities. Originality/value This paper provides a new conceptual framework about internationalization of family businesses, which is based in three main phases: operating in a domestic market and get prepared for a foreign market, selecting the right model of internationalization and selecting the right strategy of internationalization. Beside the new conceptual model, the authors provide the implications of this model toward internationalization of family businesses, and the authors propose some useful recommendation for further research in this field.


Author(s):  
C. Goessens ◽  
D. Schryvers ◽  
J. Van Landuyt ◽  
A. Verbeeck ◽  
R. De Keyzer

Silver halide grains (AgX, X=Cl,Br,I) are commonly recognized as important entities in photographic applications. Depending on the preparation specifications one can grow cubic, octahedral, tabular a.o. morphologies, each with its own physical and chemical characteristics. In the present study crystallographic defects introduced by the mixing of 5-20% iodide in a growing AgBr tabular grain are investigated. X-ray diffractometry reveals the existence of a homogeneous Ag(Br1-xIx) region, expected to be formed around the AgBr kernel. In fig. 1 a two-beam BF image, taken at T≈100 K to diminish radiation damage, of a triangular tabular grain is presented, clearly showing defect contrast fringes along four of the six directions; the remaining two sides show similar contrast under relevant diffraction conditions. The width of the central defect free region corresponds with the pure AgBr kernel grown before the mixing with I. The thickness of a given grain lies between 0.15 and 0.3 μm: as indicated in fig. 2 triangular (resp. hexagonal) grains exhibit an uneven (resp. even) number of twin interfaces (i.e., between + and - twin variants) parallel with the (111) surfaces. The thickness of the grains and the existence of the twin variants was confirmed from CTEM images of perpendicular cuts.


2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-184
Author(s):  
Amy Garrigues

On September 15, 2003, the US. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that agreements between pharmaceutical and generic companies not to compete are not per se unlawful if these agreements do not expand the existing exclusionary right of a patent. The Valley DrugCo.v.Geneva Pharmaceuticals decision emphasizes that the nature of a patent gives the patent holder exclusive rights, and if an agreement merely confirms that exclusivity, then it is not per se unlawful. With this holding, the appeals court reversed the decision of the trial court, which held that agreements under which competitors are paid to stay out of the market are per se violations of the antitrust laws. An examination of the Valley Drugtrial and appeals court decisions sheds light on the two sides of an emerging legal debate concerning the validity of pay-not-to-compete agreements, and more broadly, on the appropriate balance between the seemingly competing interests of patent and antitrust laws.


Author(s):  
Ángel Correa ◽  
Paola Cappucci ◽  
Anna C. Nobre ◽  
Juan Lupiáñez

Would it be helpful to inform a driver about when a conflicting traffic situation is going to occur? We tested whether temporal orienting of attention could enhance executive control to select among conflicting stimuli and responses. Temporal orienting was induced by presenting explicit cues predicting the most probable interval for target onset, which could be short (400 ms) or long (1,300 ms). Executive control was measured both by flanker and Simon tasks involving conflict between incompatible responses and by the spatial Stroop task involving conflict between perceptual stimulus features. The results showed that temporal orienting facilitated the resolution of perceptual conflict by reducing the spatial Stroop effect, whereas it interfered with the resolution of response conflict by increasing flanker and Simon effects. Such opposite effects suggest that temporal orienting of attention modulates executive control through dissociable mechanisms, depending on whether the competition between conflicting representations is located at perceptual or response levels.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Quezada ◽  
Isabel J. Gonzalez ◽  
Michael A. Zarate

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