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100 1 Shaheer, Noman Ahmed
245 10 Reappraising International Business in a Digital Arena :
|bBarriers, Strategies, and Context for
Internationalization of Digital Innovations
264 0 |c2019
300 1 online resource (220 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
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500 Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-
03, Section: A
500 Advisor: Li, Sali
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 2019
504 Includes bibliographical references
520 This dissertation builds on the eclectic paradigm to
explore internationalization strategies in the burgeoning
digital economy through a rigorous empirical analysis of a
unique big data archive tracking international
penetrations of more than 1.5 million mobile apps across
58 countries. While traditional firms internationalize by
internalizing physical assets to reap location advantages
from foreign markets, many digital businesses
internationalize by orchestrating networks of information
flows across borders. Such digital internationalization
may not be constrained by cross-national distance or lack
of resources as digital businesses leverage globally
disperse knowledge and innovation networks to develop
scale free digital innovations and seamlessly transmit
them across the world via global platforms. Incorporating
such unique dynamics of digital internationalization in
extant literature, I extend beyond the current research
focus on firm resources and internalization of physical
assets to evaluate how digital businesses internalize
networks across multiple locations to virtually
internationalize their scale free digital innovations.
First, I argue that despite lower barriers to foreign
market entries in digital world, digital
internationalization is still subject to user adoption
barriers that emanate from differences in user
preferences. However, digital businesses may overcome user
adoption barriers despite their limited resources by
internalizing demand-side networks, particularly users,
across countries. Next, I distinguish demand-side networks
based on their potential of contributing knowledge and
innovation ideas to facilitate the internationalization
of their digital innovations. I draw attention to the
critical role of lead markets in a digital context by
showing that establishing demand-side networks in lead
markets can facilitate digital businesses in upgrading
their innovations to penetrate multiple countries. Hence,
I advocate expanding eclectic paradigm to incorporate
demand-side networks in lead markets as important location
advantages. Finally, as location of networks plays a
pivotal role in setting the course of digital
internationalization, I emphasize the need for
categorizing countries across the world based on their
network characteristics. I develop two indices, virtual
distance and virtual clout, which measure how networks
across countries differ from and connect with each other
in the virtual world. My dissertation takes an initial but
important step toward developing a more rigorous,
quantifiable, and generalizable understanding of the new
rules of digital internationalization by not only
proposing important theoretical extensions but also
subjecting them to sophisticated empirical investigations
533 Electronic reproduction.|bAnn Arbor, Mich. :|cProQuest,
|d2020
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 Entrepreneurship
650 4 Management
650 4 Business conditions
650 4 Business administration
653 Digital Business
653 Digital Entrepreneurship
653 Digital Globaliztaion
653 Digital Strategy
653 Eclectic Paradigm
653 Mobile Apps
655 7 Electronic books.|2local
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690 0429
690 0454
690 0310
710 2 ProQuest Information and Learning Co
710 2 University of South Carolina.|bBusiness Administration
773 0 |tDissertations Abstracts International|g81-03A
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