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    Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias

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    Authors
    Faroque, A.R.
    Shimul, Anwar Sadat
    Xu, H.
    Kuivalainen, O.
    Murshed, F.
    Sundqvist, S.
    Date
    2025
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Faroque, A.R. and Shimul, A.S. and Xu, H. and Kuivalainen, O. and Murshed, F. and Sundqvist, S. 2025. Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias. International Business Review.
    Source Title
    International Business Review
    DOI
    10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102428
    ISSN
    0969-5931
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    School of Management and Marketing
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97441
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    We contribute novel insights into how status quo bias may play a part in identifying and capitalizing on international opportunities, thus addressing a previously overlooked aspect of cognitive perspective in international entrepreneurship research. First, from an entrepreneurial process perspective, we assert that internationalizing firms can attain a performance advantage by adopting Kirznerian and Schumpeterian types of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) with the mediation of opportunity recognition and exploitation. Building on cognitive bias theory, we further posit that status quo bias plays a significant role in shaping the relationship between EO and opportunity recognition and exploitation. We test our hypotheses using survey data collected from 275 internationalizing firms. The empirical results suggest that EO variants exhibit distinct influences and are influenced in unique ways by international opportunity recognition, exploitation and status quo bias. Specifically, we find that a higher level of status quo bias strengthens the relationship between Schumpeterian EO and opportunity recognition, whereas a lower level strengthens the association between Schumpeterian EO and opportunity exploitation. However, no significant effect of status quo bias is found in Kirznerian firms. The study offers both theoretical and practical implications, and provides valuable recommendations for future research.

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