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International entrepreneurship must be hard, because so few firms attempt it. If true, perhaps it is hard because it requires knowledge about people and places far away. It is hard because it requires mastering processes to handle business across borders. And it is hard because it requires trust in the processes and eventually in the customers elsewhere. These three elements, knowledge, mastery and trust in international business are essential to the success of international entrepreneurship for SMEs.
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Katz, J.A., Safranski, S.R. & Khan, O. Virtual Instant Global Entrepreneurship. Journal of International Entrepreneurship 1, 43–57 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023238301590
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