The editors present an analytical framework with three levels of analysis - entrepreneurial level, firm level, and institutional level - to document comprehensive, realistic and experientially-based entrepreneurial initiatives, potent firm and public policy strategies and informative and applicable results.

Contents: 1. Introduction Hamid Etemad PART I: EXAMINATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION–PERFORMANCE RELATIONS 2. International Entrepreneurship and Performance: What are the Important Factors in Markets with High Cultural Distance? Elena Cedrola, Loretta Battaglia and Anna Grazia Quaranta 3. Risk-seeking Behaviors in SMEs’ Internationalization Noémie Dominguez 4. Psychological Traits, Experiences, Foreign Language Knowledge of Entrepreneurs, and Re-internationalization Strategies of SMEs: A Theoretical Analysis Huu Le Nguyen and Sören Kock PART II: COLLABORATIVE INTER-DEPENDENCE 5. The Dynamic Development of International Entrepreneurial Networks Vaiva Stanisauskaite and Sören Kock 6. The Influence of the Entrepreneur and the Accelerator in the Internationalization Process of Web-based Firms Diala Kabbara 7. Formal Inter-firm Cooperation and International Expansion: How Italian SMEs are Using the Network Contract Selena Aureli and Mara Del Baldo 8. How are Knowledge Acquisition and SMEs’ Internationalization Related? Empirical Evidence from Gruppo Germani Mirella Migliaccio and Francesca Rivetti 9. Value Chain Activities in Born Global Companies Ingemar Wictor PART III: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT 10. The Creation and Internationalization of Border Firms Eva J.B. Jørgensen and Einar Rasmussen 11. Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Embedded Roles of the Leaders and State: An Historical Case Study of Abu Dhabi Jasem Almarri, Katarriina Juusola and John Meewella 12. Concluding Remarks, Implications and Lessons Hamid Etemad Index