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Organising new business in a turbulent context: Opportunity discovery and effectuation for IJV development in transition markets

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Research on entrepreneurship has suggested entrepreneurial phenomena to take place in a wide variety of contexts that deal with new venture emergence. Opportunity discovery and effectuation are seen as the essence of entrepreneurship. The present study examines entrepreneurial behaviour in the organising of an international joint venture (IJV) in Polish transition markets. The paper aims to answer the following question: How is an international joint venture organised in turbulent context through opportunity-discovery and effectuation behaviours? Based on theoretical analysis and a longitudinal case study, we illustrate the organising of an international joint venture in transition markets through specific behaviours of opportunity discovery and effectuation. We show especially the relationship-based nature of all the behaviours. The study advances international entrepreneurship research by emphasising the intertwinedness of the entrepreneurial behaviours with the drastic developments in the transition markets and the evolution of the IJV partnership.

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Mainela, T., Puhakka, V. Organising new business in a turbulent context: Opportunity discovery and effectuation for IJV development in transition markets. J Int Entrep 7, 111–134 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-008-0034-6

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