Leveraging temporary teams for international opportunity creation on digital platforms

IF 5.7 2区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Information and Organization Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2024.100554

Kateryna Kryzhanivska, Teemu Tuomisalo, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Olli Kuivalainen

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Abstract

Companies worldwide increasingly leverage digital platforms to sell, innovate, and collaborate. Despite the global pool of resources available on digital platforms and the known benefits of information, knowledge, and networking, the international entrepreneurship literature has accorded limited attention to the role of time, temporality, and digital context in international opportunity creation. Drawing on action research from a longitudinal case study, we investigate how digital international opportunity (IO) creation unfolds on an online community platform engaging relevant knowledgeable experts. We explore the early stage of internationalization of a Finnish startup with innovative technology searching for ways to access international markets during the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this research we present a two-cycle process model explaining how IO creation occurs in a digital context and a short period of time. We show how a set of actions and their related mechanisms enable IO creation through digital platforms. Our study advances understandings of IO creation and role of digital platforms in international entrepreneurship by illuminating how early internationalizing firms engage in the creation of international opportunities online.

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利用临时团队在数字平台上创造国际机会

世界各地的公司越来越多地利用数字平台进行销售、创新和合作。尽管数字平台上的全球资源库以及信息、知识和网络的已知好处，但国际创业文献对时间、时间性和数字背景在国际机会创造中的作用给予了有限的关注。通过纵向案例研究中的行动研究，我们调查了数字国际机会（IO）创造如何在一个有相关知识专家参与的在线社区平台上展开。我们探讨了一家芬兰初创公司在全球新冠肺炎疫情爆发期间寻求进入国际市场的创新技术的国际化早期阶段。基于这项研究，我们提出了一个双周期过程模型，解释了IO创建如何在数字环境和短时间内发生。我们展示了一组操作及其相关机制如何通过数字平台实现IO创建。我们的研究通过阐明早期国际化公司如何参与在线国际机会的创造，促进了对国际创业中IO创造和数字平台作用的理解。

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Information and Organization Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.