TY - CHAP
T1 - Business group affiliation and export propensity in new ventures
AU - Eduardsen, Jonas
AU - Marinova, Svetla
AU - Vlačić, Božidar
AU - González-Loureiro, Miguel
N1 - Funding Information:
Assistant Prof. Božidar Vlačić acknowledges the financial support received from CEGE – Research Centre in Management and Economics, funded by the Multiannual Funding Programme of R&D Centres of FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under the project UIDB/00731/2020 and Spanish national funds PID2019-106677GB-I00 of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain.
Funding Information:
Prof. Miguel González-Loureiro acknowledges financial support from national funds PID2019-106677GB-I00 of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and from the Portuguese national funds of FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through the project UIDB/04728/202.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The purpose of this study is to examine how business group (BG) affiliation influences the export propensity of new ventures (NVs). To help address the inconsistency of past research on the value of BG affiliation for firms seeking to expand their business abroad, the authors provide a contingency perspective by exploring how organizational characteristics and BG characteristics condition the value of BG affiliation. The authors analyze the impact of BG affiliation on the export propensity of NVs, including the factors that condition this impact, by using a sample of 2,874 European NVs. The primary contribution of this study is to determine the impact of BG affiliation on the export propensity of NVs, including the moderating effects of firm size on the BG affiliation–export propensity relationship. The findings show that the export propensity of NVs affiliated with BGs is significantly higher than for stand-alone NVs. However, the findings demonstrate that the impact of BG affiliation on export propensity depends on the network characteristics of the BG in terms of the geographical dispersion of network ties. Consequently, the findings suggest that BG affiliation provides advantages for NV exporting only if it provides access to international inter-firm networks thus acting as a compensatory mechanism for liability of outsidership and liability of newness in foreign markets. In such cases, BG affiliation is a major resource capital that equipoises the somewhat limited financial resource provision for NV internationalization.
AB - The purpose of this study is to examine how business group (BG) affiliation influences the export propensity of new ventures (NVs). To help address the inconsistency of past research on the value of BG affiliation for firms seeking to expand their business abroad, the authors provide a contingency perspective by exploring how organizational characteristics and BG characteristics condition the value of BG affiliation. The authors analyze the impact of BG affiliation on the export propensity of NVs, including the factors that condition this impact, by using a sample of 2,874 European NVs. The primary contribution of this study is to determine the impact of BG affiliation on the export propensity of NVs, including the moderating effects of firm size on the BG affiliation–export propensity relationship. The findings show that the export propensity of NVs affiliated with BGs is significantly higher than for stand-alone NVs. However, the findings demonstrate that the impact of BG affiliation on export propensity depends on the network characteristics of the BG in terms of the geographical dispersion of network ties. Consequently, the findings suggest that BG affiliation provides advantages for NV exporting only if it provides access to international inter-firm networks thus acting as a compensatory mechanism for liability of outsidership and liability of newness in foreign markets. In such cases, BG affiliation is a major resource capital that equipoises the somewhat limited financial resource provision for NV internationalization.
KW - Business group affiliation
KW - Domestic networks
KW - Export propensity
KW - International networks
KW - Network resourceinternationalization
KW - New ventures
KW - Internationalization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107732731&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/S1745-886220210000015009
DO - 10.1108/S1745-886220210000015009
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85107732731
SN - 9781800432451
VL - 15
T3 - Progress in International Business Research
SP - 129
EP - 153
BT - Progress in international business research
PB - Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
ER -