Born global firms in knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) – what do we know of their performance?

Torbjörn Halldin ()
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Torbjörn Halldin: CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, Postal: CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

No 270, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper studies the performance of KIBS firms that are aimed for global markets from inception. Despite the increasing importance of KIBS, no previous study has investigated born global firms in this sector of the economy. Three definitions are used to categorize firms as born global. Both OLS and a nearest neighbor matching approach are implemented to find evidence of higher growth in employment and sales per employee five years after firm foundation. Finally, the findings are robust to a finer array of born global definitions and time horizons of firm performance.

Keywords: Born global firms; firm performance; knowledge intensive business sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 L25 L26 M13 M21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2012-03-16
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-knm and nep-sbm
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