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
Type | Article |
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Title | Internationalisation and its determinants: a hierarchical approach |
Authors | Li, 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. |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Journal | International Business Review |
ISSN | 0969-5931 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 13 Feb 2018 |
01 Aug 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Mar 2018 |
Accepted | 28 Jan 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | License |
Copyright Statement | © 2018. This author's accepted manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.01.009 |
Language | English |
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/87966
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