Vandor, Peter, Franke, Nikolaus. 2016. See Paris and ... found a business? The impact of cross-cultural experience on opportunity recognition capabilities. Journal of Business Venturing (JBV), 31 (4), 381-407.
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Abstract
Internationally mobile individuals such as migrants and expatriates exhibit a higher level of entrepreneurial activity than people without cross-cultural experience. Current research suggests that this pattern is rooted in specific resources and institutional arrangements that increase the attractiveness of exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities. In this study, we provide an additional explanation: We argue that cross-cultural experience increases the ability to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities. This argument is supported by two complementary studies – a longitudinal quasi-experiment and a priming experiment. We find convergent evidence that cross-cultural experience increases a person’s capabilities to recognize particularly profitable types of opportunities by facilitating the application of cross-cultural knowledge for the discovery of arbitrage opportunities and creative recombination.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) |
Citation Index | SSCI |
WU Journalrating 2009 | A |
WU-Journal-Rating new | MAN-A, STRAT-A, WH-A |
Language | English |
Title | See Paris and ... found a business? The impact of cross-cultural experience on opportunity recognition capabilities |
Volume | 31 |
Number | 4 |
Year | 2016 |
Page from | 381 |
Page to | 407 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902616300052 |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2016.03.003 |
Open Access | Y |
Associations
- People
- Vandor, Peter (Details)
- Franke, Nikolaus (Details)
- Organization
- Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship WE (Details)
- Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation IN (Details)
- Research Institute for Family Business FI (Details)
- WU Entrepreneurship Center WE (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5320 Marketing (Details)
- 5350 Innovation research (Details)