Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in Colombia

This paper describes how a born global firm goes into international market from inception at its early years. The objective of this paper is to analyze from the resource-based theory how a born global firm engages in international market. This empirical investigation has been carried out as an explo...

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Autores principales: Tabares,Alexander, Alvarez,Claudia, Urbano,David
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420150002000112015-09-04Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in ColombiaTabares,AlexanderAlvarez,ClaudiaUrbano,David born global firms resource-based theory intellectual capital: case study medellin-colombia This paper describes how a born global firm goes into international market from inception at its early years. The objective of this paper is to analyze from the resource-based theory how a born global firm engages in international market. This empirical investigation has been carried out as an explorative single-case study, a high-tech firm, Digital Partner, based in Medellin, Antioquia. The main findings of the research show that organizational capabilities based on intellectual capital are crucial for the development of a born global. Thus, capabilities such as entrepreneurship, global vision, internationally market knowledge, learning management, IT capabilities, technological innovation, collaborative work, networks and customer orientation are recurrent and they correspond to other similar research results. Contributions of the study are both academic (for the advance of the research in born global field) and practical (for the design of governmental policies to foster born global firms).info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.10 n.2 20152015-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242015000200011en10.4067/S0718-27242015000200011
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topic born global firms
resource-based theory
intellectual capital: case study
medellin-colombia
spellingShingle born global firms
resource-based theory
intellectual capital: case study
medellin-colombia
Tabares,Alexander
Alvarez,Claudia
Urbano,David
Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in Colombia
description This paper describes how a born global firm goes into international market from inception at its early years. The objective of this paper is to analyze from the resource-based theory how a born global firm engages in international market. This empirical investigation has been carried out as an explorative single-case study, a high-tech firm, Digital Partner, based in Medellin, Antioquia. The main findings of the research show that organizational capabilities based on intellectual capital are crucial for the development of a born global. Thus, capabilities such as entrepreneurship, global vision, internationally market knowledge, learning management, IT capabilities, technological innovation, collaborative work, networks and customer orientation are recurrent and they correspond to other similar research results. Contributions of the study are both academic (for the advance of the research in born global field) and practical (for the design of governmental policies to foster born global firms).
author Tabares,Alexander
Alvarez,Claudia
Urbano,David
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title Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in Colombia
title_short Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in Colombia
title_full Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in Colombia
title_fullStr Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Born Globals From the Resource-Based Theory: a Case Study in Colombia
title_sort born globals from the resource-based theory: a case study in colombia
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2015
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