INTERNATIONAL MARKETING KNOWLEDGE AND INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE CONTEMPORARY

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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING KnoWLEDGE AND INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP iN THE CONTEMPORARY MULTI SPEEd GLOBAL ECONOMY

- SPECIAL ISSUE: InTERNATIONAL MARKETING REVIEW

Guest Editors: Kevin Ibeh, David Crick and Hamid Etemad


International entrepreneurial firms, in their various manifestations as born global (BG) firms, international new ventures (INVs), rapidly internationalizing firms, micro multinationals and similar, have contributed significantly to global economic growth over the past few decades. They do so by deploying innovative strategies to explore and effectuate opportunities in national and international markets (Kalinic, Sarasvathy & Forza, 2014), and by disrupting the dynamics of competition in various industries (Sundqvist, Kyläheiko, Kuivalainen & Cadogan, 2012). Their role is likely to be even more crucial as the contemporary multi-speed global economy (i.e. the post-financial crisis world of markedly diverging economic growth outcomes) continues to offer a kaleidoscope of opportunity-risk profiles across countries and sectors (El Erin, 2014; Reuters, 2014; Spicer and Singh, 2015).


Although the past two decades of research have generated a significant stock of knowledge and literature base on the international entrepreneurship phenomenon, including influential winners of the prestigious Journal of International Business Studies’ article of the Decade award (e.g. Oviatt and McDougall, 1994; Knight and Cavusgil, 2004), relatively little is known about how international entrepreneurial firms leverage international marketing knowledge in ‘the discovery, evaluation, enactment, and exploitation of opportunities across national borders’ (Oviatt & McDougall 2005, p. 540). Not enough also is known in respect of how these firms develop their respective international marketing strategy (Aspelund, Madsen, and Moen, 2007) and manage customer and brand relationships, and marketing mix elements in overseas markets. This relative neglect of the marketing underpinnings of international entrepreneurship (Styles & Seymour, 2006; Aspelund, Madsen, and Moen, 2007; Zou, Xu and Shi, 2015) is surprising given the well-established marketing-entrepreneurship nexus (Carson et al., 1995; Gilmore et al., 2013).


The purpose of this special issue is to avail researchers of a platform to share important insights on how resource-constrained international entrepreneurial firms leverage international marketing knowledge and strategies to identify, evaluate, enact, and take advantage of growth opportunities, while mitigating risks in the highly competitive, multi speed global markets. A related aim is to improve understanding of how international entrepreneurial firms utilize overseas opportunities in marketing their way out of recessionary pressures in growth-challenged domestic markets and achieving growth in third markets.


The guest editors will welcome rigorous contributions, including conceptual and theoretical papers, state-of-the-art reviews, empirical studies, and insightful case studies, which address the above-mentioned aims or respond to the following or proximate questions:



TIMELINE and SUBMISSION

All submissions should be made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system, by November 30, 2016. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/imrev. For specific questions about this special thematic issue, contact one of the guest editors: Kevin Ibeh ([email protected],uk), David Crick ([email protected]) or Hamid Etemad ([email protected]).



Expected publication: 2018
















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Kevin Ibeh is Professor of Marketing and International Business and Assistant Dean/HoD of Management at Birkbeck, University of London. His research has mainly sought to advance knowledge of how non-dominant firms, including SMEs, might be effectively guided to leverage growth opportunities in international markets. Professor Ibeh’s work has appeared in the Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Management International Review, European Journal of Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Small Business Economics among others, and he currently serves on the editorial board/review team of several international journals.


David Crick is the Paul Desmarais Chair of International Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the University of Ottawa. His current research interests involve work at the Marketing/International Entrepreneurship interface and particularly work that addresses a more effective public/private sector interaction. He is on the editorial boards of several journals and his work has been presented at various international conferences and published in journals including: the European Journal of Marketing, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Journal of Small Business Management, Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, and Small Business Economics.


Hamid Etemad is a Professor of Marketing and International Business at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. His research and publications span a wide range from economic development and electronic marketing to international entrepreneurship and rapidly-growing smaller firms. He has published widely in scholarly journals and has edited six volumes of books and 13 special issues of scholarly journals, including the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Global Focus, International Marketing Review (two issues), Small Business Economics, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Entrepreneurship and Management International Review, among others. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Entrepreneurship; the Series Editor of the McGill International Entrepreneurship Series of books published by Edward Elgar Publishing and is also a member editorial boards of six scholarly journals.


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