International Strategic Alliances and the Internationalization Process: The Family Ownership Effect
Sist, F. (2010). International Strategic Alliances and the Internationalization Process: The Family Ownership Effect. Electronic Journal of Family Business Studies (EJFBS), Vol. 4 (2). Retrieved from https://www.jyu.fi/jsbe/en/entrepreneurship/ejfbs
Published in
Electronic Journal of Family Business StudiesAuthors
Date
2010This study examines whether the ownership structure of Italian firms affects the internationalization process of firms that completed equity international strategic alliances (EISA). This paper provides a comparison of the internationalization intensity, the internationalization commitment, the choice of country and the growth of organisation between family businesses and non-family businesses. Financial data of Italian firms that completed an EISA between 2003 and 2006 were used. The analysis of data shows that family ownership has an effect on the internationalization intensity. In fact, family businesses are more internationalised than non-family businesses if firms have completed an equity international strategic alliance.
Publisher
Jyväskylä University School of Business and EconomicsISSN Search the Publication Forum
1796-9360
Original source
https://www.jyu.fi/jsbe/en/entrepreneurship/ejfbsMetadata
Show full item recordCollections
Related items
Showing items with similar title or keywords.
-
Architecture of dissonance : a study on the strategic management process of higher education internationalization
Sarpo, Ville (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2018) -
Internationalization pathways among family-owned SMEs
Kontinen, Tanja; Ojala, Arto (Emerald Group Publishing, 2012)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the internationalization of family firms; to investigate how the framework by Bell et al. on the internationalization patterns of firms could explain the ... -
A content analysis on family firms' association annual questionnaire
Kokko, Tanja (2010)The aim of this paper is to analyze the content of a questionnaire that is used in order to conduct a Finnish Family Firms’ Association’s annual barometer for its members. The content of the questionnaire is reflected to ... -
Network ties in the international opportunity recognition of family SMEs
Kontinen, Tanja; Ojala, Arto (Elsevier, 2011)The importance of network ties is emphasized in the current literature on opportunity recognition. However, it is unclear how firms with limited bridging networks, such as family SMEs, recognize international opportunities ... -
International opportunity recognition among small and medium-sized family firms
Kontinen, Tanja; Ojala, Arto (The Sheridan Press, 2011)Current research in the field of entrepreneurship emphasizes the importance of opportunity recognition as a key element in the entrepreneurial process. It has been recognized that network ties, activeness and alertness, ...