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Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Research on ‘Born Global’ Firms and INVs: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis

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The present research paper shows the results of an analysis of the existing literature on one of the topics that has sparked the most interest among scholars and researchers in the fields of international management and entrepreneurship: born global firms or international new ventures. Concretely, with the aim of identifying and visualising the intellectual structure of research on this phenomenon, a total of 124 research papers whose titles contain the above terms are analysed. The methodology is mainly based on the bibliometric techniques of document citation and co-citation analyses and the analysis of social networks.

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  1. In the recent literature, authors such as Zahra and George (2002), Coviello and Jones (2004) or Jones and Coviello (2005) have pointed out the need for more specific and systematic research, in both theoretical and empirical terms, on this type of international business. Likewise, Axinn and Matthyssens (2001, 2002) and Bell et al. (2004) encourage researchers to develop conceptual models and theoretical frameworks to better explain and predict the behaviour of these companies in the international context.

  2. In general, the literature shows that there is no established methodological guide in this situation, so the choice is usually the result of a series of tests to obtain a co-citation of an adequate size for statistical treatment or graphic representation. Similarly, authors such as Schildt et al. (2006, p. 401) operate in the field of entrepreneurship.

  3. To be precise, there are two main ways of treating these values. The first (White and Griffith 1981), consists in taking the sum of the three highest values in the corresponding column, remember that this is a symmetrical matrix, and dividing this sum by two, which gives a value that, in the opinion of the above authors, could be indicative of the importance of a paper. The other opinion (McCain 1990) simply considers three values as missing data and applies the criteria of pairwise deletion in the realisation of the calculations; in other words, ignoring the values of the main diagonal when calculating, for example, the correlation coefficients between each pair of documents.

  4. In 2004, Oviatt and McDougall (2005) received the Journal of International Business Studies Award for their 1994 article “Toward a Theory of International New Ventures”. The award recognised the authors’ seminal 1994 article, which introduced the phenomenon of born global firms (which they call “international new ventures”) to the scholarly audience, and integrated literature from the fields of international business, entrepreneurship and strategic management. The article also defined and conceptualised “international entrepreneurship” (Oviatt and McDougall 2005).

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García-Lillo, F., Claver-Cortés, E., Marco-Lajara, B. et al. Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Research on ‘Born Global’ Firms and INVs: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis. Manag Int Rev 57, 631–652 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-016-0308-5

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