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Entering non-traditional and emerging markets: a matter of opportunity orientation and willingness to take risks?

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  • Christian Hauser
  • Jens Hogenacker
  • Ralph Lehmann

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Internationalisation has much in common with entrepreneurship. Entry into and development of new foreign markets is characterised by high levels of uncertainty and typically occurs under imperfect information. Based on a sample of 369 internationally active Swiss firms, we investigate the link between a firm's opportunity orientation and willingness to take risks, on one hand, and its international activities in non-traditional and emerging markets, on the other. We find suggestive evidence that the opportunity orientation - and not the risk-taking disposition - of exporting firms is an important driver of foreign market expansion into non-traditional and emerging markets.

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  • Christian Hauser & Jens Hogenacker & Ralph Lehmann, 2016. "Entering non-traditional and emerging markets: a matter of opportunity orientation and willingness to take risks?," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 29(1), pages 25-45.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:29:y:2016:i:1:p:25-45
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