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Exploring entrepreneurs’ human capital components and effects on learning orientation in early internationalizing firms

verfasst von: Chonnatcha Kungwansupaphan, Sununta Siengthai

Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Ausgabe 3/2014

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This study aims to enhance our understanding of the role of entrepreneurs’ human capital components and the influences on learning orientation in early internationalizing firms. Drawing from the integration of human capital theory, resource-based view theory, learning theory, and on the literature of international entrepreneurship and strategic management, a research model is proposed and consists of five constructs, namely international business skill, international business knowledge, entrepreneurial competence, managerial competence and learning orientation. The empirical analysis was carried out on a sample of 158 early internationalizing firms in a food industry in Thailand. Partial least square technique was conducted to test the structural equation models and hypotheses. This followed by some illustrative case studies as supplementary to the empirical findings. The results confirm our hypotheses and support the proposed research model. This study yielded interesting findings in which an entrepreneur’s skill and knowledge in international business enhance entrepreneurial and managerial competencies. These competencies, in turn, play an important role in influencing a firm’s strategic learning orientation

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Titel: Exploring entrepreneurs’ human capital components and effects on learning orientation in early internationalizing firms
verfasst von: Chonnatcha Kungwansupaphan
Sununta Siengthai
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2014
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Ausgabe 3/2014
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Elektronische ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-012-0237-0

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