International Entrepreneurship In An Age Of Persistent Disruption

Editors

• Olga Petričević, University of Calgary
• Christos N. Pitelis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Stratos Ramoglou, University of Bristol
• Catherine L. Wang, Brunel University of London
• Shaker A. Zahra, University of Minnesota

Description

This special issue examines how entrepreneurial firms navigate systematic disruption in international markets. Rather than treating disruption as temporary shocks, the issue positions continuous, cascading disruptions—including geopolitical tensions, technological change, regulatory fragmentation, and supply chain disruption—as the permanent operating environment for internationally active ventures. The challenge is to understand how these firms adapt their internationalization strategies, timing, and value creation approaches when traditional market entry logic and past experience no longer provide guidance.

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Potential topics

• How do geopolitical bifurcation and regulatory fragmentation reshape opportunity structures for entrepreneurial internationalization?
• How do entrepreneurial firms experiment with and strategically recalibrate the timing of internationalization in response to unfolding disruptions? Do timing choices and decision rules differ between gradual and sudden disruptions?
• What are emerging forms of temporary, relational, or ecosystem-based advantage in turbulent environments for entrepreneurial firms that internationalize?
• How do the new realities of the global marketplace impact entrepreneurial ventures' foreign market entry modes, and how does this reshape competitive strategies and modes of competition?
• How do internationally oriented entrepreneurial ventures develop and deploy forms of strategic dexterity to orchestrate heterogeneous resources, partners, and knowledge flows across fragmented and institutionally diverse global ecosystems?
• How do digital infrastructures and interorganizational alliances reconfigure the sensing, seizing, and transforming capabilities and their microfoundations in IE, and how do these enablers shape the balance between agility and strategic control across borders?
• How do internationally active entrepreneurial ventures develop and deploy non-market and political capabilities to orchestrate resilience, legitimacy, and innovation within a polycentric, digitally mediated, and institutionally fragmented global order, and what strategic learning mechanisms enable effective navigation across world regions?
• To what extent do dynamic capabilities retain relevance for entrepreneurial internationalization in contexts of heightened technological turbulence, geopolitical volatility, and ecosystemic interdependence?
• How do internationally active entrepreneurial firms strategically orchestrate cross-border knowledge creation, transfer, and protection in the face of increasingly restrictive IP regimes, data localization policies, and digital sovereignty constraints?
• How does the evolving mobility of talent, ideas, and digital capital under disruption reconfigure the spatial and cognitive geographies of international entrepreneurial ecosystems and innovation hotspots, and with what implications for business model innovation and evolution?
• What governance mechanisms enable IE firms to build trust, coordinate value creation, and protect IP across fragmented institutional contexts?
• How is the strategic logic of international location and embeddedness evolving for entrepreneurial firms amid digital virtualization, geopolitical realignment, and shifting global value networks?

Associate editors