TY - GEN

T1 - Foreign Motivations

T2 - How International Exposure Shapes Firms' Entrepreneurial Orientation in Emerging Market

AU - Wales, William

AU - Shirokova, Galina

AU - Bogatyreva, Karina

AU - Germain, Richard

N1 - Foreign Motivations: How International Exposure Shapes Firms' Entrepreneurial Orientation in Emerging Market / W. Wales, G. Shirokova, K. Bogatyreva, R. Germain // St. Petersburg University Graduate School of Management Working Paper. – 2018. – Issue 4(E) – 18 p.

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Since its emergence, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has grown in prominence torepresent a central concept in corporate entrepreneurship. Despite the importance of EO, insufficient attention has been devoted to EO in emerging markets and transitional economies. In this paper, we examine the international exposure of managers within an emerging market context as a driver of their firms’ EO formation as well other potentially impactful forces such as foreign competition growth in their domestic market and the level of involvement into international economic activity within the region where the firm operates. We explore the focal relationships using a sample of 769 manufacturing firms from Russia, a BRIC country that has received very little attention within the literature on corporate entrepreneurship in general and EO in particular. Our findings indicate importance of managerial international exposure and industry foreign competition growth in the process of EO formation. At the same time, the former is shown to be a context-specific EO driver. Implications are discussed.

AB - Since its emergence, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has grown in prominence torepresent a central concept in corporate entrepreneurship. Despite the importance of EO, insufficient attention has been devoted to EO in emerging markets and transitional economies. In this paper, we examine the international exposure of managers within an emerging market context as a driver of their firms’ EO formation as well other potentially impactful forces such as foreign competition growth in their domestic market and the level of involvement into international economic activity within the region where the firm operates. We explore the focal relationships using a sample of 769 manufacturing firms from Russia, a BRIC country that has received very little attention within the literature on corporate entrepreneurship in general and EO in particular. Our findings indicate importance of managerial international exposure and industry foreign competition growth in the process of EO formation. At the same time, the former is shown to be a context-specific EO driver. Implications are discussed.

KW - entrepreneurial orientation

KW - international exposure

KW - regional involvement into international economic activity

M3 - Other contribution

T3 - St. Petersburg University Graduate School of Management Working Papers

PB - Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета

CY - St. Petersburg

ER -