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The chapter summarizes the insights from international entrepreneurship literature focusing on the entrepreneurial orientation, drivers of internationalization, and network relations of born global firms. These ventures pay attention to knowledge-intensive products and innovations, have accelerated internationalization, and exploit a global niche from the earliest days of their foreign operations. This paper highlights the connection of international entrepreneurial orientation and networking of born global firms as well as points out the acceleration role of network for entrepreneurial born global. The qualitative analysis has been performed based on information technology born global firms founded by Lithuanian entrepreneurs. Empirical results highlight the drivers for rapid internationalization, necessity of entrepreneurial orientation, and born global firm’s relations with upstream, downstream, and horizontal partners. Results suggest that creation of networks and active involvement in entrepreneurial ecosystem is one of the key success factors for the scope of international expansion.
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Sekliuckiene, J. (2016). Toward International Entrepreneurial Orientation and Networking of Born Global Firms. In: Vrdoljak Raguž, I., Podrug, N., Jelenc, L. (eds) Neostrategic Management. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18185-1_10
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