Internetization as the necessary condition for internationalization in the newly emerging economy |
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Authors: | Hamid Etemad Ian Wilkinson and Leo Paul Dana |
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Institution: | (1) McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;(2) University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;(3) GSCM Montpellier, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;; |
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Abstract: | The internationalization of entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly facilitated through the use of the internet. This article
introduces the term “internetization” to refer to the process of increasing adoption, diffusion, and deployment of internet-based
technologies and processes that increasingly serve as the back bone of internationalization, especially in the innovative
entrepreneurial firms. This process may be compared to the firm’s adoption and use of the internet and the internet-based
processes in transforming the firm to a hybrid network internally and externally within the firm’s home and international
markets, especially when the members of its external network have already internationalized. Internationalization of the firm,
which has been much studied in the international business literature may provide a parallel analogy for study of internetization.
Based on these analogies and within the context of previous literature in internationalization, a brief examination of a typical
rapidly-internationalizing firm through the use of the Internet, and the user-generated provisions of Web 2.0 in particular,
points to the impact of internetization on internationalization. Various theoretical and research issues are highlighted and
discussed, including the important interactions that exist between the processes of internetization and internationalization.
Conclusion suggests that internetization may have become the necessary condition for internationalization. The paper calls
upon the IE scholars to respond to the theoretical challenge of integrating internetization processes into internationalization,
especially for the smaller, entrepreneurial and innovative firms. |
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