Digital governance voids and entrepreneurial internationalization
基于制度逃离视角，研究了母国数字治理空白（数字基础设施及治理机制缺失或碎片化）如何促进发达经济体创业企业的国际化，并发现这种效应在较大企业和机会更丰富的经济体中更强。
Building on the institutional escape perspective, this study explains why the home-country digital governance voids – i.e., the absence, underdevelopment, or fragmentation of digital infrastructure and associated governance mechanisms – may foster the internationalization of entrepreneurial firms in developed economies. It further explains why and how this baseline prediction varies across differing firm sizes and home-country economic opportunities. Using a five-year panel dataset of entrepreneurial firms across European countries, it provides support for the escape perspective, showing that digital governance voids do boost the degree of entrepreneurial firms’ internationalization, particularly for larger entrepreneurial firms and in more opportunity-rich economies. This study offers important theoretical contributions to the institutional theory, the escape perspective, and research on entrepreneurial firm internationalization, and discusses practical implications as well as avenues for future research.