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Internationalisation in new ventures what role do team dynamics play?

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  • Christian Hauser
  • Petra Moog
  • Arndt Werner

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The role of team size and dynamics in the internationalisation process of new ventures has received little attention in entrepreneurship literature so far. We hope to fill this gap by investigating how team formation and the intertemporal dynamics of teams in the first years of new ventures affect their propensity for early-stage-internationalisation. Using the resource-based view and matching theory, our study generates new insights in this field regarding productivity effects. Using regression models for binary outcome variables, we test our hypotheses with a data set of start-ups that are either internationalised or not (Cologne Founder Study). We find that new ventures with productive matched teams will overcome barriers to internationalisation easier than single person start-ups. In particular, we can show that a variation in team size (a decrease) enhances the productivity of the management and increases the probability to internationalise.

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  • Christian Hauser & Petra Moog & Arndt Werner, 2012. "Internationalisation in new ventures what role do team dynamics play?," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(1), pages 23-38.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:15:y:2012:i:1:p:23-38
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    1. Gregori, Patrick & Ukobitz, Desiree V. & Parastuty, Zulaicha, 2018. "A Conceptual Framework on Entrepreneurial Team Member Exits: A Starting Point for Further Research," 6th International OFEL Conference on Governance, Management and Entrepreneurship. New Business Models and Institutional Entrepreneurs: Leading Disruptive Change (Dubrovnik, 2018), in: 6th International OFEL Conference on Governance, Management and Entrepreneurship. New Business Models and Institutional Entrepreneurs: Leading Disrupt, pages 453-474, Governance Research and Development Centre (CIRU), Zagreb.
    2. Ma, Hongjia & Xiao, Bin & Guo, Hai & Tang, Sisi & Singh, Deeksha, 2022. "Modeling entrepreneurial team faultlines: Collectivism, knowledge hiding, and team stability," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 726-736.
    3. Patrick Gregori & Zulaicha Parastuty, 2021. "Investigating the process of entrepreneurial team member exits: a systematic review and future research directions," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 15(4), pages 847-878, May.
    4. Aurora Teixeira & Cátia Coimbra, 2014. "The determinants of the internationalization speed of Portuguese university spin-offs: An empirical investigation," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 12(3), pages 270-308, September.

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