Abstract
This article examines the growing trade relationship between the United States and Mexico that has boosted exports and foreign direct investment. This dynamic has led Mexican entrepreneurs to establish companies in the U.S. South. But do they have the global, personal, and cultural competencies needed to influence their firms’ effective internationalization? To answer this question, the authors did qualitative research applying a scientifically validated questionnaire to measure these competencies. The results show that the Mexican entrepreneurs have high levels of global competencies (knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experiences) that have helped them be successful in the U.S. market.Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Copyright Retention and License Grant:
Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal a non-exclusive right of first publication. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits others to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit to the author and acknowledge the work’s initial publication in this journal.
Additional Distribution: Authors are free to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., posting to an institutional repository, publishing in a book, or other distribution), provided they acknowledge the work’s initial publication in this journal.
Pre- and Post-Publication Sharing: Authors are permitted and encouraged to share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, personal websites, or academic platforms) before, during, or after the submission process, as this can foster productive exchanges and increase the visibility and citation of the published work, subject to the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.