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Informal institutions and international entrepreneurship

Etayankara Muralidharan and Saurav Pathak

International Business Review, 2017, vol. 26, issue 2, 288-302

Abstract: This study examines the influence of three informal institutions, performance orientation, self-expression and social desirability, on the extent of internationalization by early stage entrepreneurial firms. We employed multi-level modeling techniques using 20,656 individual-level responses obtained from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey for 39 countries from 2001 to 2008, and supplementing with country-level data obtained from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) study. The results demonstrate that high performance orientation, high self-expression, and low social desirability of entrepreneurship in societies increase the extent of internationalization by early-stage entrepreneurial firms. The study promotes new theory and empirical findings on the relationship between informal institutions and entrepreneurial agency.

Keywords: Informal institutions; Internationalization; Early-stage; Entrepreneurship; Multi-level modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.07.006

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