Speed of internationalization: conceptualization, measurement and validation
Fecha
2014Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
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10.1016/j.jwb.2013.12.014
Resumen
To better manage and understand the speed at which firms internationalize, managers and
scholars need an appropriate conceptualization and a reliable and valid measure of speed of
internationalization. The literature, however, adopts a limited temporal perspective and usually
conceptualizes and measures it as the time it takes the firm to start to internationalize. This
unidimensional view ne ...
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To better manage and understand the speed at which firms internationalize, managers and
scholars need an appropriate conceptualization and a reliable and valid measure of speed of
internationalization. The literature, however, adopts a limited temporal perspective and usually
conceptualizes and measures it as the time it takes the firm to start to internationalize. This
unidimensional view neglects the central aspects of internationalization that create speed. Our
purpose is, therefore, to propose a new, theory-driven – embedded in the main concepts of the
original Uppsala model – and multidimensional conceptualization and operationalization. The
main contribution is that we develop this conceptualization and measure. [--]
Materias
Speed of internationalization; market knowledge; market commitment; international performance; small and medium-size enterprise.,
Speed of internationalization,
Market knowledge,
Market commitment,
International performance,
Small and medium-size enterprises
Editor
Elsevier
Publicado en
Journal of World Business 49 (2014) 633–650
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Gestión de Empresas /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Enpresen Kudeaketa Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
We wish to thank to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, project ECO2011-28991, for the financial support provided.