This book, the fourth volume in the McGill International Entrepreneurship series, brings together 25 top scholars to explore the structural complexities, evolving relations and dynamic forces that are shaping the new system of multi-polar, multi-level international business relations. It examines entrepreneurial efforts and relations in different country- and corporate-cultures, each embedded in, and also constrained by, country specific socio-economic structures while competing for consumer attentions in global competitive an industry structures that recognizes no boundaries across the world. The new millennia has experienced much rapid change, much of it implicit, intangible and not covered by the headlines of the popular press. An emerging multi-polar and multi-level international business relations, and structures, system, gravitating strongly towards the productive firms providing for the consumers of the world, including the burgeoning consumers of the emerging andare developing economies, is replacing the bipolar of system of 20th Century that was, mainly between based on the large and productive firms of highly developed countries and consumers of the developing countries. The authors in this volume, scholars from around the world, analyze the nascent architecture and relations in the newly emerging system. They explore the structural complexities, evolving relations, and dynamic forces that are shaping and re-shaping the new system and examine entrepreneurial efforts and relations that cement the system. They cover different levels and layers of inter-relations and dependencies, at times empowering and at times constraining. The chapters in this volume portray the operating conditions of many firms from, or active in, 13 emerging- country environments and industries ranging from basic foods and information technology to complex business processes
Introduction and Overview Hamid Etemad PART I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONALIZATION 2. Internationalization Theories and International Growth of Smaller Firms From Emerging Markets Hamid Etemad 3. Broadening the Domain of International Entrepreneurship - A Direction Towards the Consolidation of the Field? Tamara Galkina 4. Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Economies Christian Keen PART II: FACTORS IMPACTING INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMEs IN EMERGING MARKETS 5. Impact of Entrepreneur on the Process of Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises in Iran Firouzeh Ghanatabadi 6. Internationalization Facilitated by Estonian Roots and Swedish Knowledge: Fifteen Cases Tiia Vissak 7. Explaining the International Entry and Expansion of the Firms from the Developing Countries from a Capability Point of View: Test Results From Bangladesh Bolivia, Ethiopia and Vietnam Utz Dornberger and Md. Noor Un Nabi 8. Growth Factors of Russian Entrepreneurial Firms Galina Shirokova, William Coyle and Alexander Shatalov 9. Internationalization and Post-IPO Performance Kin Kwok (Sam) Leung and Rod B. McNaughton PART III: THE IMPACT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, FIRM CHARACTERISTICS AND INSTITUTIONAL HERITAGE: INTERNATIONALIZATION IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE AND EMERGING ECONOMIES 10. Fair Trade and Alternative Food Networks in the Internationalization of Small-Scale Rural Entrepreneurs in South Africa Etienne Nel, Tony Binns and David Bek 11. Organizational and Ownership Structures and Internationalization: A Case study of the Two Firms in New Zealand Seafood Industry Leo Paul Dana 12. Socio-Cultural Dynamics, Entrepreneurial Values, and Client-Provider Partnerships in the Outsourcing Industry Joseph A. Sy-Changco and Chito Agapito 13. Exploring Ambience of 'International Entrepreneurship' Among SME's in India Dinesh Khanduja PART IV: OF SMALLER FIRMS: THE IMPACT OF THE PUBLIC POLICY AND HOME-COUNTRY ENVIRONMENT ON INTERNATIONALIZATION 14. Entrepreneurship in the Sphere of Innovation in Russia: The International Context Elena Dmitrienko and Vera Minina 15. The Impact of Industrial Clusters on Internationalization: The Case of SMEs in Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor Christopher Richardson 16. Regional Systems of Innovation and Knowledge Entrepreneurship in Natural Resource-based Clusters Christian Felzensztein and Jaime Olavarria 17. Concluding Remarks Hamid Etemad
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