Internationalization and Firm Performance: The S-Curve Hypothesis under the Eurozone Context

Ricardo Vilas-Boas () and Isabel Su rez-Gonz lez ()
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Ricardo Vilas-Boas: Departamento de Administraci¢n y Econom¡a de la Empresa, Facultad de Econom¡a y Empresa, Universidad de Salamanca
Isabel Su rez-Gonz lez: Departamento de Administraci¢n y Econom¡a de la Empresa, Facultad de Econom¡a y Empresa, Universidad de Salamanca, http://web.usal.es/~isuarez/
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Isabel Suarez-Gonzalez

No 2007-15, Working Papers "New Trends on Business Administration". Documentos de Trabajo "Nuevas Tendencias en Dirección de Empresas". from Interuniversity Research Master and Doctorate Program (with a quality mention of ANECA) on "Business Economics", Universities of Valladolid, Burgos, Salamanca and León (Spain). Until 2008, Interuniversity Doctorate Program (with a quality mention of ANECA) “New trends in Business Administration”, Universities of Valladolid, Burgos, and Salamanca (Spain). Master en Investigación y Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitarios (con mención de calidad de la ANECA) en "Economía de la Empresa", Universidades de Valladolid, Burgos, Salamanca y León (España). Hasta 2008, Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitario (con mención de calidad de la ANECA) “Nuevas Tendencias en Dirección de Empresas”, Universidades de Valladolid, Burgos y Salamanca (España).

Abstract: In this article, we analyse the gains in performance of international diversified firms applied to the Eurozone, taking into account the impact of the interactive effect of both product and international diversification on this performance. We test all the conflicting relations explored in the literature of international diversification (linear, quadratic and cubic), and found that the S-curve is a more complete approach, since it considers different stages of different firms, regarding the international diversification-performance relation. Another important contributions of this article are: i) the fact we take into consideration not only account based measures of performance, but also market based measures; ii) different from previous studies, our sample is multi country and European; iii) we take into account not only manufacturing or service firms exclusively, but both together.

Keywords: International Diversification; Multinational; Internationalization; Globalization. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2007-12
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