Combining local and international embeddedness in a rural context
The aim of this chapter is to explore the distinctiveness of international entrepreneurship in a rural context. Based on theory about international entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and embeddedness, the study explores how international small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are embedded i...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/26886 2023-05-15T17:39:22+02:00 Combining local and international embeddedness in a rural context Jørgensen, Eva Jenny Benedikte 2022-10-27 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26886 eng eng Routeledge Jørgensen EJB: Combining local and international embeddedness in a rural context. In: Leick B, Gretzinger S, Makkonen T. The Rural Enterprise Economy, 2022. Routledge p. 219-234 FRIDAID 1908751 9780367471873 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26886 openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) Chapter Bokkapittel acceptedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe 2022-09-21T23:00:39Z The aim of this chapter is to explore the distinctiveness of international entrepreneurship in a rural context. Based on theory about international entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and embeddedness, the study explores how international small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are embedded in their local and international contexts and how these two forms of embeddedness are combined. A case study of six SMEs that started their internationalization by crossing the border from rural North-Norway to the northwest parts of Russia is adopted. The book chapter offers a detailed description of how the case companies are embedded across the border and identifies three distinct ways of how they have combined local and international embeddedness. The first way is related to taking advantages of being dis-embedded, the second to balancing local and international embeddedness and the third to using embeddedness to reinforce further internationalization. This book chapter contributes to the international entrepreneurship literature by contextualizing international opportunity development to a rural context and to the rural entrepreneurship literature by demonstrating distinct ways of how local embeddedness can be combined with other forms of embeddedness. Book Part North Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway |
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The aim of this chapter is to explore the distinctiveness of international entrepreneurship in a rural context. Based on theory about international entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and embeddedness, the study explores how international small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are embedded in their local and international contexts and how these two forms of embeddedness are combined. A case study of six SMEs that started their internationalization by crossing the border from rural North-Norway to the northwest parts of Russia is adopted. The book chapter offers a detailed description of how the case companies are embedded across the border and identifies three distinct ways of how they have combined local and international embeddedness. The first way is related to taking advantages of being dis-embedded, the second to balancing local and international embeddedness and the third to using embeddedness to reinforce further internationalization. This book chapter contributes to the international entrepreneurship literature by contextualizing international opportunity development to a rural context and to the rural entrepreneurship literature by demonstrating distinct ways of how local embeddedness can be combined with other forms of embeddedness. |
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Jørgensen EJB: Combining local and international embeddedness in a rural context. In: Leick B, Gretzinger S, Makkonen T. The Rural Enterprise Economy, 2022. Routledge p. 219-234 FRIDAID 1908751 9780367471873 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26886 |
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