International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience Through Comparative Reasoning Approaches

作者: Marian V. Jones , Lucrezia Casulli

DOI: 10.1111/ETAP.12060

关键词: Case-based reasoningEntrepreneurshipInternationalizationEmpirical researchCognitionSocial psychologyContext (language use)EpistemologySociologyPsychology of reasoningHeuristics

摘要: In this paper, we suggest that individual experience and reasoning, as applied to new endeavors in internationalization, are concepts with high potential advance conceptual empirical research international entrepreneurship (IE). Experience is known be important but the logic or reasoning which it insufficiently understood. Cognitive, comparison-based theories explain how individuals draw on make sense of uncertain, novel, complex situations. Drawing two such theories, heuristics analogical delineate speculative propositions its utility context internationalization research.

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