Knowledge Management Strategies in International Entrepreneurship

Dear Colleagues,

In today’s hyper-competitive international marketplace, it has been vital for enterprises to manage tangible and intangible resources. One of the pivotal outcomes of this concept has been the surge of interest in knowledge management. According to the literature, it is evident that global enterprises must master the act of integrating disparate sources of knowledge found within their bounds to maintain a competitive advantage in their strategy.  

However, research on global knowledge management in international entrepreneurship is an item of heated interest in the academic community. Practitioners and researchers strive to better understand the challenges related to investment in knowledge through international collaboration with external partners across international contexts.

The purpose of this special issue is to integrate the role of context with knowledge management strategies research and to discuss the subsequent implications for international entrepreneurship.

We welcome conceptual, empirical and theoretical work in business management, in particular international entrepreneurship, knowledge management, and business strategy. We invite researchers, PhD students and businesspeople to come together, share ideas, collaborate, and act, providing their view beyond the consequences of knowledge management in strategic international entrepreneurship. 

The topics of the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

• International knowledge management
• knowledge hiding and SME internationalization
• Strategic international entrepreneurship
• Knowledge transfer in international entrepreneurship
• New approaches of global knowledge sharing
• Applied knowledge management and global enterprises
• Towards a new strategic model of internationalization
• Knowledge management strategies in internationalization
• Knowledge management in international ventures
• The role of knowledge sharing in the future of international entrepreneurship
• Knowledge management in modelling the speed of internationalization
• Effect of knowledge management on entrepreneurial orientation
• Knowledge network of international entrepreneurship
• Leveraging internal and external knowledge sources globally
• Knowledge management in small and medium‐sized international companies
• Institutional perspective on knowledge management in entrepreneurial organizations

Dr. Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi
Dr. Razieh Sadraei
Guest Editors

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• knowledge management
• strategic entrepreneurship
• knowledge transfer