Internationalisation and its determinants: a hierarchical approach

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Li, T. 2018. Internationalisation and its determinants: a hierarchical approach. International Business Review. 27 (4), pp. 867-876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.01.009
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TitleInternationalisation and its determinants: a hierarchical approach
AuthorsLi, T.
Abstract

This study builds a hierarchical model to examine how country-level institutional dimensions impact the resource-based aspects on the internationalisation by early stage entrepreneurial firms. It combines the resource-based theory and the institutional theory to develop a model of internationalisation and empirically tests this model on a representative sample of nascent entrepreneurs using a hierarchical estimation design. By combining multiple datasets, cross-level (random-effects) moderation analysis is used to explicate the influence of a country’s institution on the effects of the resource-based determinants on the internationalisation by early stage entrepreneurial firms, and this method enables the study of country-level growth slopes. The results of the empirical research confirm the role of resource-based explanatory variables in predicting internationalisation and the positive moderating effect of institutions on this association, suggesting that along with the motivational factors emphasised by the resource-based theory, it is important not to underestimate the role of the institutional system in shaping the propensity and intensity of export activity.

PublisherElsevier
JournalInternational Business Review
ISSN0969-5931
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Online13 Feb 2018
Print01 Aug 2018
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Deposited28 Mar 2018
Accepted28 Jan 2018
Output statusPublished
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.01.009
LanguageEnglish
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