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Panel 3: The Present and Future of International Entrepreneurship
Time:
Friday, 05/Apr/2024:
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Session Chair: Dr Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Aston University, United Kingdom;
Location:Susan Cadbury Lecture Theatre
Aston Business School Building, Ground Floor
International entrepreneurship represents a very lively research field and community of scholars. It is positioned at the crossroads between international business and entrepreneurship and contributes to the former providing a complementary perspective on the internationalization phenomenon. The year 2024 marks an important anniversary for this relatively young topic: 30 years since the publication of Oviatt & McDugall (1994) and 20 years since the publication of Knight & Cavusgil (2004), both on JIBS and both receiving the JIBS decade article award. In this panel, we ask what is the present and the future of a field which attracts many young scholars and is quite popular at international business conferences and journals? What is the state of this discipline today, disciplines which received so much attention from scholars and contributions as well as criticism? And what is its future? In many works, International Entrepreneurship is depicted as an outcome of globalization processes: what is its future in a world which is turning less global and more prone to multiple international shocks? In the past, International Entrepreneurship has adopted its research approaches and methods from the two disciplines in which it has been rooted. Is that sufficient for capturing IE-related phenomena in the future, or should we look beyond disciplinary borders and seek additions to our methodological toolbox? The panel will try to address these issues from different angles, encompassing research approaches and theoretical lenses.
Presentations
Panellists:
Gary Knight1, Antonella Zucchella2, Niina Nummela3, Olli Kuivalainen4
1Willamette University, USA; 2University of Pavia, Italy; 3University of Turku, Finland; 4Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland;
International entrepreneurship represents a very lively research field and community of scholars. It is positioned at the crossroads between international business and entrepreneurship and contributes to the former providing a complementary perspective on the internationalization phenomenon. The year 2024 marks an important anniversary for this relatively young topic: 30 years since the publication of Oviatt & McDougall (1994) and 20 years since the publication of Knight & Cavusgil (2004), both on JIBS and both receiving the JIBS decade article award. In this panel, we ask what is the state of this discipline today, disciplines which received so much attention from scholars and contributions as well as criticism. And what is its future? In many works, International Entrepreneurship is depicted as an outcome of globalization processes. In the past, International Entrepreneurship has adopted its research approaches and methods from the two disciplines in which it has been rooted. Is that sufficient for capturing IE-related phenomena in the future, or should we look beyond disciplinary borders and seek additions to our methodological toolbox? The panel will try to address these issues from different angles, encompassing research approaches and theoretical lenses.
