International Corporate Entrepreneurship among SMEs: A Test of Stevenson's Notion of Entrepreneurial Management

Abstract

Despite increasing attention devoted to international entrepreneurship, little is known about firm‐level entrepreneurship carried out by established small and medium‐sized enterprises (s) in international markets. We apply the opportunity‐based conceptualization of “Entrepreneurial Management” by oward tevenson to international corporate entrepreneurship activities of s. We hypothesize that the different dimensions of tevenson's theory have a positive impact on s' international corporate entrepreneurship. We test the hypotheses on a longitudinal sample of international s. Our results show the expected positive effects of some, but not all, aspects of tevenson's theory. Thereby, the paper suggests more precise boundary conditions of the theory and contributes to the literature on international corporate entrepreneurship by s.

Notes

1. We compiled this list by combining 10 entrepreneurship textbooks as selected by Edelman, Manolova, and Brush (2008), namely, the textbooks entrepreneurship instructors are using to teach new venture launches, with three bestselling textbooks that focus on corporate entrepreneurship.

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Notes on contributors

Lucia Naldi

Lucia Naldi is associate professor at Jönköping International Business School. P.O. Box 1026, SE‐55111 Jönköping, Sweden.

Leona Achtenhagen

Leona Achtenhagen is professor at Jönköping International Business School.

Per Davidsson

Per Davidsson is professor at the Australian Center for Entrepreneurship Research, Queensland University of Technology.