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Explaining born globals: an organisational learning perspective on the internationalisation process

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  • Lars Bengtsson

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The aim of this paper is to suggest a development of the traditional internationalisation model based on the organisational learning theory in order to explain internationalisation processes of so called "born globals". In the new internationalisation model that is proposed here, the propensity, speed, intensity and direction of the internationalisation of a firm will be determined both by the context, the internationalisation actions of other firms, and by the firm's ability to learn from direct personal experience as well as from the prior internationalisation experiences of the founders and other persons and firms. The internationalisation actions by other firms mainly provide the individual firm with objective foreign market knowledge through searching and noticing and vicarious learning. The firm acquires experiential foreign market knowledge through three different learning processes: congenital learning, grafting and experiential learning.

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  • Lars Bengtsson, 2004. "Explaining born globals: an organisational learning perspective on the internationalisation process," International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(1), pages 28-41.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:1:y:2004:i:1:p:28-41
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