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TY - JOUR
T1 - Configuring international entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic internationalization capability to predict international performance
AU - Mostafiz, Md Imtiaz
AU - Ahmed, Farhad Uddin
AU - Tardios, Janja
AU - Hughes, Paul
AU - Tarba, Shlomo Y.
PY - 2025/3/31
Y1 - 2025/3/31
N2 - In recent years, the dynamics of international business have changed. This has largely been attributed to uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and global trends towards individualistic behaviours. To remain competitive, international entrepreneurial firms (IEFs) renew their behaviours and reconfigure their capabilities. However, scholars have hitherto not uncovered the configurational interplay connecting behaviours and capabilities between the pre-and-post-COVID periods. Drawing on the configurational perspective of dynamic capability theory, we explored the configurational specificities of dynamic internationalisation capability and an international entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) as the behavioural aspect of IEFs. Adopting a longitudinal approach, we applied fsQCA to data drawn from Malaysia. Results show that whereas, in the pre-COVID period, IEFs exhibited an IEO along with threshold and disruption capabilities, in the wake of the pandemic, they are gingerly manifesting an IEO with an overwhelming priority on value-adding and consolidation capabilities suited to weather crises and secure international performance.
AB - In recent years, the dynamics of international business have changed. This has largely been attributed to uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and global trends towards individualistic behaviours. To remain competitive, international entrepreneurial firms (IEFs) renew their behaviours and reconfigure their capabilities. However, scholars have hitherto not uncovered the configurational interplay connecting behaviours and capabilities between the pre-and-post-COVID periods. Drawing on the configurational perspective of dynamic capability theory, we explored the configurational specificities of dynamic internationalisation capability and an international entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) as the behavioural aspect of IEFs. Adopting a longitudinal approach, we applied fsQCA to data drawn from Malaysia. Results show that whereas, in the pre-COVID period, IEFs exhibited an IEO along with threshold and disruption capabilities, in the wake of the pandemic, they are gingerly manifesting an IEO with an overwhelming priority on value-adding and consolidation capabilities suited to weather crises and secure international performance.
KW - International entrepreneurial orientation
KW - International entrepreneurship
KW - dynamic internationalisation capability
KW - fsQCA
KW - necessity analysis of QCA
U2 - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102275
DO - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102275
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
JO - International Business Review
JF - International Business Review
SN - 0969-5931
IS - 2
M1 - 102275
ER -