International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience through Comparative Reasoning Approaches
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, we suggest that individual experience and reasoning, as applied to new endeavors in internationalization, are concepts with high potential to advance conceptual and empirical research in international entrepreneurship (IE). Experience is known to be important in internationalization, but the logic or reasoning with which it is applied is insufficiently understood. Cognitive, comparison–based reasoning theories explain how individuals draw on experience to make sense of uncertain, novel, and complex situations. Drawing on two such theories, heuristics and analogical reasoning, we delineate the logic of experience and advance speculative propositions on its utility in the context of internationalization research.
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12060
Authors: Marian V. Jones, Lucrezia Casulli
Institutions: University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1998245828