Focusing on the personal and extended networks of the entrepreneur and his/her management team, several studies challenging traditional models of internationalization have drawn upon network theory. For example, a comparative study of export behavior among entrepreneurial software firms in Finland, Ireland, and Norway led Bell (1995) to conclude that the network approach was a better explanation of the internationalization process of these firms. McDougall et al. (1994) explained that networks helped founders of international new ventures, or born-globals, to identify international business opportunities, and those networks appeared to have more influence on the founders’ country choices than did their psychic distance