International Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Internationalize
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Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
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Sasin School of Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Australia
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School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Sustainability 2020, 12(14), 5647; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145647
Received: 22 June 2020 / Revised: 9 July 2020 / Accepted: 10 July 2020 / Published: 14 July 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
This paper presents a conceptual model of international entrepreneurial intention (IEI) through the lens of planned behavior and expectancy-valence theories. Extending the entrepreneurial intentions literature, where attitude to sustainability has started to have an increasingly important influence, to post-launch decisions, we provide an improved theoretical rationale for new venture internationalization, clarify the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and IEI, and more closely align the international entrepreneurship literature with mainstream entrepreneurship literature. In this model, IEI is influenced by the entrepreneur’s attitudes to sustainability, learning, risk, work enjoyment, and work effort, moderated by entrepreneur’s perceived feasibility to act entrepreneurially, and determines the firm-level EO, which may culminate in the internationalization of a new or existing venture.
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Keywords:
international entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial intention; entrepreneurial orientation; internationalization; attitude to sustainability
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Ruzzier, M.; Douglas, E.J.; Ruzzier, M.K.; Hojnik, J. International Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Internationalize. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5647. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145647
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Ruzzier M, Douglas EJ, Ruzzier MK, Hojnik J. International Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Internationalize. Sustainability. 2020; 12(14):5647. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145647
Chicago/Turabian StyleRuzzier, Mitja, Evan J. Douglas, Maja K. Ruzzier, and Jana Hojnik. 2020. "International Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Internationalize" Sustainability 12, no. 14: 5647. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145647
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