Published August 25, 2020
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How does internationalization begin? The role of age at entry and export experience in the early stages of the process
Description
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.
Abstract
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad ECO2017-84364-RAdditional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/100424
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/100424