Networking from Home to Abroad: The Internationalization of The Iberostar Group

Elena San Román (), Agueda Gil-López, Isabel Díez-Vial and Sarah Jack
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Elena San Román: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Agueda Gil-López: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
Isabel Díez-Vial: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Sarah Jack: Stockholm School of Economics

Chapter 11 in The Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization, 2021, pp 327-360 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers how networks between a family firm and foreign companies in a constrained domestic market were deployed and developed through time, and how these networks supported the internationalization of a family firm. We analyse the historical case study of a Spanish multinational family firm, the Iberostar Group, which since 1956 has operated in the tourist industry. Our case shows that the Spanish company constituted a trustworthy partner through which foreign companies entered the Spanish tourist market and built business alliances with both a domestic and an international scope. Interaction between the Iberostar Group and foreign companies allowed this Spanish family firm to grow and consolidate its domestic business but also provided access to foreign markets, resulting in a learning process that forearmed the company to venture abroad. In this process of networking, the family nature of the Iberostar Group was key because it offered its international partners reputation and therefore trust, reliability and a long-term vision enabling it to counteract the uncertainties and constraints imposed by the domestic context.

Keywords: Family firm; Internationalization; Networks; Spanish tourism industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66737-5_11

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