Four Essays on International Entrepreneurship

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Introduction

   • Gordian Rättich

   Pages 1-5

3. Going Global Early: Liabilities of Foreignness and Early Internationalizing Firms

   • Lydia Bals, Heather Berry, Evi Hartmann, Gordian Rättich

   Pages 7-50

4. Performance Measurement and Antecedents of Early Internationalizing Firms: A Systematic Assessment

   • Gordian Rättich, Kim Clark, Evi Hartmann

   Pages 51-90

5. Impact of Institutional Coordination on National Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework

   • Kim Clark, Gordian Rättich, Evi Hartmann

   Pages 91-129

6. Global Organizational Design in Purchasing and Supply Management: Headquarters and Subsidiaries in a Contingency Perspective

   • Gordian Rättich

   Pages 131-162

7. Final Conclusion

   • Gordian Rättich

   Pages 163-165

Internationalization of business activities has become one of the main fields of interest in management research, influencing a broad range of academic areas such as strategic management, organizational science, operations management or economic institutions. In recent years the pace of internationalization has even increased. With his four essays on distinctive levels of International Entrepreneurship, Gordian Rättich provides an answer on some of the most essential challenges for entrepreneurial firms and shows how social groups, economic institutions and nations manage to overcome the challenges of internationalization and gain competitive advantages.

• Early Internationalizing Firms
• International Business
• Internationalization
• operations management
• strategic management

Dr. Gordian Rättich received his doctor’s degree from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in business administration at the chair of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Evi Hartmann. He is working as a management consultant and is strongly inspired by Early Internationalizing Firms and its founders.

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