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The value of human capital for the networks of born globals

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  • Sara Melen
  • Emilia Rovira Nordman

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This study explores how a born global firm uses its network to learn during its internationalisation and how human capital influences this learning process. Within born global research, there exists a discrepancy between scholars who regard personal networks to be the most important for born globals' international growth and those who regard business networks as the most important. Based on a longitudinal in-depth case study of a born global within the Swedish biotech industry, our results show that both forms of networks are important but that a born global firm's use of its network differs at various phases in the firm's internationalisation.

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  • Sara Melen & Emilia Rovira Nordman, 2007. "The value of human capital for the networks of born globals," International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(2), pages 205-219.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:2:y:2007:i:2:p:205-219
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    1. Ferguson, Shon & Henrekson, Magnus, 2018. "The Long-Run Performance of Born Globals in Computing: The Role of Digital Platforms," Working Paper Series 1224, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, revised 23 Oct 2019.
    2. Svante Andersson & Eva Berggren, 2016. "Born global or local? Factors influencing the internationalization of university spin-offs—the case of Halmstad University [Born Global oder Born Local: Was beinflüsst und erleichtert die Internati," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 296-322, September.
    3. Nishant Kumar, 2012. "The resource dynamics of early internationalising Indian IT firms," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 10(3), pages 255-278, September.
    4. Shon Ferguson & Magnus Henrekson & Louise Johannesson, 2021. "Getting the facts right on born globals," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 56(1), pages 259-276, January.

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