ABSTRACT
Internationalization research concerns the increasing exposure and involvement of fi rms in international business activities, whereas international entrepreneurship (IE), is currently defi ned as the “discovery, enactment, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities-across national bordersto create future goods and services,” (Oviatt and McDougall 2005, 540), processes which ipso facto include internationalization, i.e., the transfer of goods services and business activities across borders. Research in this fi eld (using the wider concept of IE) entails study of entrepreneurial behavior, at the level of the individual and the fi rm, and comparison across countries. In this chapter we focus on IE as a process of behavior manifest at the level of the fi rm rather than the individual.
