Start-ups' Internationalization: The Impact of Business Owners' Management Experience, Start-up Experience and Professional Network on Export Intensity

Jonas Debrulle and Johan Maes

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Abstract: This study investigates the influence of business owner experience (management/start-up) and professional networking on start-up export intensity. In addition, we assume networking to mediate the experience – export intensity relationship. Flemish start-ups form this study's empirical setting. Our results indicate that start-up export intensity is directly driven by professional networking. Management experience is a positive antecedent of networking while start-up experience is negatively related to professional networking. All in all, management and start-up experience connect only indirectly to export intensity, fully mediated by networking. Implications and opportunities for future research are suggested.

Keywords: export intensity; business owner; experience; professional network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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Published in European Management Review, 2015, 12 (3), pp.171--187. ⟨10.1111/emre.12050⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/emre.12050

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