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、创新和协作。尽管数字平台上有全球可用的资源库，并且信息、知识和网络的好处众所周知，但国际创业文献对时间、时间和数字环境在国际机会创造中的作用给予的关注有限。借鉴纵向案例研究的行动研究，我们调查了数字国际机会 （IO） 的创造如何在吸引相关知识渊博的专家的在线社区平台上展开。我们探讨了一家芬兰初创公司的国际化早期阶段，该公司拥有创新技术，在 COVID-19 大流行的全球爆发期间寻找进入国际市场的方法。基于这项研究，我们提出了一个双周期流程模型，解释了 IO 创建是如何在数字环境和短时间内发生的。我们展示了一组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创造国际机会，促进了对 IO 创建和数字平台在国际创业中的作用的理解。