MANDATORY ENTREPRENEURS' CHARACTERISTICS TO NEW VENTURES' INTERNATIONALIZATION

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2017

Authors

Raquel Meneses (Author) FEP; Moutinho, N (Author) Other; Azevedo, J (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Global and national business theories and practice: bridging the past with the future 10th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business

Pages: 1062-1074

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-SH9

Abstract (EN): As International New Ventures are defined as firms that internationalizes almost since inception, many researchers have linked their nature to entrepreneurs' characteristics. This study will try to define what entrepreneurs' individual features are really necessary to international new ventures, using semi-structured interviews to the owners of 21 Portuguese companies from the technological sector and performing a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Previous work has failed to address this question, may be because this methodology capable of examining complex causal situations is rarely used. Our major finding is that for a firm to have an early process of internationalization it is absolutely necessary that the entrepreneur has a previous international network of contacts. All other individual characteristics of the entrepreneur were not considered mandatory although some combinations of them would lead to the same result.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 13