Review of International Business and Strategy: Volume 27 Issue 2

Family entrepreneurship and internationalization strategies

Vanessa Ratten, Veland Ramadani, Leo-Paul Dana, Frank Hoy, Joao Ferreira

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of family entrepreneurship and internationalization strategies by discussing the papers in this special journal issue.

Boundary-spanning and boundary-buffering in global markets: A German perspective on the internationalization of family firms

Mark Lehrer, Sokol Celo

This paper aims to provide a novel way of thinking about firm internationalization. We offer a stylized view of family firms as internationalizers who choose to engage in…

Internationalization of Mexican family firms: the cases of Xignux and Grupo Alfa

Juan Velez-Ocampo, Karthik Govindan, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

This theory testing paper compares and analyzes the internationalization process of two Mexican family-owned firms: Xignux and Grupo Alfa. This paper is intended to offer a…

How do family entrepreneurs recognize opportunities? Three propositions

Silke Tegtmeier, Christina Classen

Opportunity recognition (OR) is a key factor in the entrepreneurial process. The purpose of the paper is to elaborate on whether OR, such as related to internationalization…

Innovativeness in family firms: an internationalization approach

Vanessa Ratten, Kayhan Tajeddini

This paper aims to build on opportunity identification and resource-based view theory, this paper examines the internationalization process of family firms. The role of…

The innovation and internationalisation processes of family businesses

Vitor Braga, Aldina Correia, Alexandra Braga, Sofia Lemos

The success of the family firms cannot be detached from the current paradigm where, within the present economic conditions, economic agents struggle to exploit the existing…

Models and strategies of family businesses internationalization: A conceptual framework and future research directions

Gadaf Rexhepi, Veland Ramadani, Amir Rahdari, Grisna Anggadwita

This paper aims to emphasize the importance of crafting and selecting business models and strategies of family business in the process of internationalization.

A quadruple helix model of entrepreneurship, innovation and stages of economic development

Anderson Galvão, Carla Mascarenhas, Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues, Carla Susana Marques, Carmem Teresa Leal

The purpose of this paper is to study the role of entrepreneurship in economic development based on the four dimensions of the quadruple helix model (Government, University…