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Internationalisation and performance in family businesses: influence of the internationalisation path followed

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  • Oscar Javier Varas-Fuente
  • Raquel Arguedas-Sanz
  • Beatriz Rodrigo-Moya

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Although many family businesses have chosen to undertake internationalisation processes, little is known about how the internationalisation-performance relationship is affected by the internationalisation path followed. This research is based on the theory of resources and capabilities, the unique set of business resources (familiness) and the socio-emotional wealth (SEW) perspective. Based on a set of panel data from the Spanish survey on business strategies for small and medium-sized Spanish family businesses from 2005 to 2015, fixed-effect regressions were run on a sample of 285 businesses that followed the traditional path and 107 that followed the accelerated path, finding an inverted U-shaped curve for the traditional path and an inverted S-shaped curve for the accelerated path. Specifically, the accelerated path, not the traditional one, allows an increase in performance at higher levels of internationalisation.

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  • Oscar Javier Varas-Fuente & Raquel Arguedas-Sanz & Beatriz Rodrigo-Moya, 2022. "Internationalisation and performance in family businesses: influence of the internationalisation path followed," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 46(2), pages 185-209.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:46:y:2022:i:2:p:185-209
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