International ecopreneurship through a paradox lens: eco-SME decision-makers’ sensemaking and responses to internationalization tensions

What is it about?

The internationalization of eco-SMEs may expose decision-makers to paradoxical tensions as they seek to reconcile conflicting objectives and constraints across heterogeneous regulatory and market environments. Yet relatively little is known about how these decision-makers experience and respond to such tensions during international expansion. Adopting a paradox perspective, this paper examines how individual-level sources of paradox interact with spatial conditions across international contexts and identifies the strategies used by eco-SME decision-makers to manage these tensions.

Featured Image

Photo by Bhautik Patel on Unsplash

Photo by Bhautik Patel on Unsplash

Why is it important?

The study repositions international ecopreneurship within a paradox perspective by showing how individual characteristics and heterogeneous spatial settings shape the paradox management strategies adopted by eco-SME decision-makers during internationalization of their ventures