The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Use of Knowledge in the Process of Internationalisation Based on the Example of Companies from Polan
The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Use of Knowledge in the Process of Internationalisation Based on the Example of Companies from Polan

Summary/Abstract: Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge are one of the most important issues discussed in internationalisation research. Nowadays, these problems are systematically developed as part of research on international entrepreneurship. This article combines these two aspects to verify the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and the use of knowledge in the internationalisation process based on the example of Polish businesses. The research methods applied in the study are: analysis and synthesis of the literature, statistical methods, as well as survey on a sample of 355 enterprises from Poland. The empirical part has confirmed that entrepreneurial orientation affects the use of knowledge in the process of internationalisation. Firms with higher entrepreneurial orientation definitely use different types of knowledge more intensively at various stages of internationalisation. As verified, network knowledge is more explored in both initial and advanced internationalisation. In advanced internationalisation entrepreneurial knowledge is more intensively used. In turn, during the initial internationalisation, market as well as sociocultural knowledge are much more explored. Value added of the article and at the same time a new look at the presented problem is an attempt to define the role of knowledge and its types in the process of internationalisation determined by entrepreneurial orientation. Thus, the study tries to fill the research gap in this area.

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