Internationalisation and performance in family businesses: influence of the internationalisation path followed

Oscar Javier Varas-Fuente, Raquel Arguedas-Sanz and Beatriz Rodrigo-Moya
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Raquel Arguedas Sanz

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2022, vol. 46, issue 2, 185-209

Abstract: Although many family businesses have chosen to undertake internationalisation processes, little is known about how the internationalisation-performance relationship is affected by the internationalisation path followed. This research is based on the theory of resources and capabilities, the unique set of business resources (familiness) and the socio-emotional wealth (SEW) perspective. Based on a set of panel data from the Spanish survey on business strategies for small and medium-sized Spanish family businesses from 2005 to 2015, fixed-effect regressions were run on a sample of 285 businesses that followed the traditional path and 107 that followed the accelerated path, finding an inverted U-shaped curve for the traditional path and an inverted S-shaped curve for the accelerated path. Specifically, the accelerated path, not the traditional one, allows an increase in performance at higher levels of internationalisation.

Keywords: familiness; family businesses; internationalisation paths; internationalisation-performance relationship; resources and capabilities; socio-emotional wealth; SEW. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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