Stimulants and constraints behind entrepreneurial learning and growth.

摘要

Integrating entrepreneurship, strategy, and international business research, this dissertation draws on theories derived from social psychology and resource-based views, and data derived from China, India, Japan, Mexico, and South Africa, to investigate a number of key questions. [Essay 1] Under what conditions do individuals learn from their previous entrepreneurial failures? What determines the perceived value of the lessons learned from the experience of failure? In this essay, I explore the underlying mechanism of learning from entrepreneurial failure. [Essay 2] How do prior failures influence future entrepreneurship? Under what conditions do entrepreneurs recover from failures and do better in the next round? In this essay, I explore the cognitive determinants of entrepreneurs' recovery from failure and the growth of their subsequent ventures. [Essay 3] What drives new ventures to internationalize from emerging to developed economies? In this essay, I explore the internalized values and proactive learning motives of new ventures that affect their decision to internationalize from emerging to developed economies.