Conclusion
The field of international entrepreneurship is rich with possibility and opportunity, and the full extent of its scope is undefined (Acs, Dana, & Jones, 2003). As the field moves from infancy to what appears will be a high level of growth, there are many interesting research questions that will surely be asked and investigated. We expect the revised definition we have provided in this article will help guide researchers to those questions. We hope that more scholars will focus on explaining the observed differences in the speed with which entrepreneurial opportunities are taken international. We believe our model will aid in finding those explanations.
As we reviewed research for this article, it was noteworthy to us that the authors of the majority of the multiauthored articles were either exclusively international business scholars or entrepreneurship scholars. Articles that have authors from both disciplines are unusual. International entrepreneurship researchers have embraced the notion of multicounty research teams and excellent examples of scholarly work have resulted we believe disciplinary diversity would be just as beneficial. As the role of the entrepreneur is increasingly being explored in international business journals and the internationalization of the entrepreneurial firm appears in traditional entrepreneurship journals, we encourage the formation of research teams composed of entrepreneurship and international business scholars. Too often, international entrepreneurship articles appearing in entrepreneurship journals demonstrate a lack of knowledge of international business theories and research. Likewise, international entrepreneurship articles appearing in international business journals demonstrate a need for greater understanding of the scholarly work in entrepreneurship. Although both entrepreneurship and international business are multidisciplinary, there appears to have been limited collaboration in research between entrepreneurship and international business scholars. The increased comingling of entrepreneurship and international business scholars that is evident at research conferences is encouraging. As entrepreneurship scholars extend their networks to include international business scholars, and vice versa, we hope that collaborative research projects will be launched that consider some of the influences highlighted in this article.