Empirical Relationships among Technological Characteristics, Global Orientation, and Internationalisation of South Korean New Ventures

Junghyun Yoon and Dae-su Kim
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Junghyun Yoon: POSTECH Entrepreneurship Centre, POSTECH, Pohang 37673, Korea
Dae-su Kim: School of Business, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-13

Abstract: International new ventures (INVs) that pursue rapid internationalisation have received a growing amount of attention worldwide. This study, therefore, examined characteristics of INVs, and hence investigated empirically the relationships among the technological characteristics of INVs, the characteristics of their chief executive officers (CEOs) (i.e., global orientation), and their internationalisation such as the level of internationalisation. The findings of this study can be summarised as follows: all of the technological characteristics (e.g., technological capacity, imitation, innovation, and standardisation) have significant effects on the internationalisation of INVs. Furthermore, the CEO’s global orientation mediated the relationship between the technological characteristics and internationalisation.

Keywords: international new ventures; internationalisation; technological characteristics; global orientation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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