The increased international propensity of serial entrepreneurs demonstrating ambidextrous strategic agility: a precursor to international marketing agility
This paper analyzes whether business owners that simultaneously demonstrate past entrepreneurial experience and process agility have greater export propensity levels. The proposed hypotheses are tested using binary choice models relating past entrepreneurial experience and reported process agility o...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/123242 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/123242 https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IMR-01-2018-0015 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Job enrichment Learning strategies Serial entrepreneurs entrepreneurial experience generative learning process process agility agility internationalization. Treball--Enriquiment Estratègies d'aprenentatge Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Macroeconomia::Comerç internacional |
| Resumo: | This paper analyzes whether business owners that simultaneously demonstrate past entrepreneurial experience and process agility have greater export propensity levels. The proposed hypotheses are tested using binary choice models relating past entrepreneurial experience and reported process agility on a unique sample of 246 Catalan business owners for the year 2010. Consistent with our theoretical arguments on the relevance of generative-based cognitive agility, results reveal that serial entrepreneurs demonstrate a greater export propensity. Additionally, we found that serial entrepreneurs who also demonstrate process agility show superior export propensity levels, compared to the group of business owners outside this ambidextrous group (first-time business owners without process agility). The findings of this study indicate that traits characterizing international marketing agility, decisional speed and accuracy, are also linked with greater export propensity levels. The added export market expansion resulting from the opportunity responsiveness of serial entrepreneurs is found to be amplified by the accuracy of internal adaptation capabilities of process agility. Therefore, the promotion of ambidextrous strategic agility coming from the complementarities between the benefits of entrepreneurial experience and adaptive process abilities is essential for increasing businesses’ internationalization |
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