@article {809,
	title = {The Emergence of {\textquoteleft}Power with{\textquoteright}: The Case of a Born Global Organization},
	volume = {301/2009},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {239 - 256},
	publisher = {Springer},
	chapter = {17},
	abstract = {Thanks to the advancement of Information and Communications Technologies, the past decade has seen the rise of Born Global organizations (Rennie, 1993; Oviatt and McDougall, 1994; Karra and Philips, 2004; Zahra, 2005). Broadly defined as {\textquoteleft}business organizations that, right from inception, seek to derive significant competitive advantages from the use of resources and the sales of outputs in multiple countries{\textquoteright} (Oviatt and McDougall, 1994: 49), Born Global organizations are small, young, and internationally dispersed. While sharing the characteristics of {\textquoteleft}smallness{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}newness{\textquoteright} of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), Born Global organizations also bear {\textquoteleft}foreignness{\textquoteright}, similar to that of Multinational Corporations (Zahra, 2005). Born Globals therefore need to strike a balance between {\textquoteleft}global reach{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}local touch{\textquoteright} as in Multinational Corporations (Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1989); yet they have to do so with scare resources and organizational uncertainty similar to SMEs, and with {\textquoteleft}lean{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}mean{\textquoteright} communications afforded by ICT (e.g. Sproull and Kiesler, 1986). This study is an initial attempt to untangle the combined challenges in Born Globals{\textquoteright} innovative way of management. Through a longitudinal case study, we aim to explore the issue of power in a Born Global{\textquoteright}s endeavour to manage its global knowledge via technology mediation.
},
	issn = {978-3-642-02387-3},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02388-0_17},
	author = {Yan, Lin and Niki Panteli}
}
