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Creative Tension: The Significance of Ben Oviatt’s and Patricia McDougall’s Article ‘Toward a Theory of International New Ventures’

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International Entrepreneurship

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The article by Oviatt and McDougall threw the spotlight on international entrepreneurs, on international new ventures, and on their importance in the globalising world economy. Recognising the rich theoretical implications of this phenomenon, they mounted a challenge to received internationalisation process theories and established a new and exciting research theme, that of international entrepreneurship. This article reviews the impact of their contribution and discusses new research themes raised by their challenge to the process theories of internationalisation.

Journal of International Business Studies (2005) 36, 9–19. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400117

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    Both of these assumptions may, in fact, reflect the highly participative and collective decision process of Swedish firms, in which decisions emerge in seemingly endless discussions in which it is often difficult for an outsider to see when a final decision has been reached.

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    Corporate spin-offs are different in this regard.

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I acknowledge the support by the National Technology Agency Tekes, of Finland, under the ‘Liike’ research programme.

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  1. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department, Imperial College Business School, London, UK

    Erkko Autio

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Accepted by Arie Lewin, Editor in Chief, 20 August 2003. This paper has been with the author for one revision.

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Autio, E. (2018). Creative Tension: The Significance of Ben Oviatt’s and Patricia McDougall’s Article ‘Toward a Theory of International New Ventures’. In: Reuber, A. (eds) International Entrepreneurship. JIBS Special Collections. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74228-1_3

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