Artículo
How does internationalization begin? The role of age at entry and export experience in the early stages of the process
Autor/es | Casillas Bueno, José Carlos
Acedo González, Francisco José Rodríguez Serrano, María de los Ángeles |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Administración de Empresas y Comercialización e Investigación de Mercados (Marketing) |
Fecha de publicación | 2020 |
Fecha de depósito | 2020-08-25 |
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Resumen | This article deals with two important concepts in the prior literature on the internationalization process: age at entry
and export experience. Against previous research, we analyze how both of them influence simultaneously ... This article deals with two important concepts in the prior literature on the internationalization process: age at entry and export experience. Against previous research, we analyze how both of them influence simultaneously international behavior in the early stages of the internationalization process as a trade-off. For that aim, we analyze the influence of both variables on international behavior in the early stages of the internationalization process, from a dynamic perspective, looking at initial export behavior and speed during this period. We analyze export development process of 106 Spanish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), most of them international new ventures, in their first 8 years of export activity, combining the effect of age at entry and experiential learning during this period, finding that age at entry and export experience exert not only a direct effect but also a moderation influence on initial export development, observing a trade-off between such influence as experience grows. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad |
Identificador del proyecto | ECO2017-84364-R |
Cita | Casillas Bueno, J.C., Acedo González, F.J. y Rodríguez Serrano, M.d.l.Á. (2020). How does internationalization begin? The role of age at entry and export experience in the early stages of the process. Business Research Quarterly, 23 (2), 107-119. |
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