Speed of internationalization: Conceptualization, measurement and validation

By Sylvie Chetty, Martin Johanson, Óscar Martín Martín. 2014

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To better manage and understand the speed at which firms internationalize, managers and scholars need an appropriate conceptualization and a reliable and valid measure of speed of internationalization. The literature, however, adopts a limited temporal perspective and usually conceptualizes and measures it as the time it takes the firm to start to internationalize. This unidimensional view neglects the central aspects of internationalization that create speed. Our purpose is, therefore, to propose a new, theory-driven – embedded in the main concepts of the original Uppsala model – and multidimensional conceptualization and operationalization. The main contribution is that we develop this conceptualization and measure.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Re-thinking research on born globals (2015, background): “combine Oviatt and McDougall (2005) with Jones and Coviello (2005) and more recent work from Casillas and Acedo (2013) as well as Chetty,”
Rapid internationalization and long-term performance: The knowledge link (2017, background): “As displayed in the table, different views exist in relation to the definition of speed of internationalization (for a review please refer to Chetty, Johanson, and Martín Martín, 2014).”
Facilitating speed of internationalization: The roles of business intelligence and organizational agility (2020, background): “Specifically, international learning speed is constituted by repetition and diversity of international activities, such as “speed of achieving regular exports”, while the international committing speed is measured with three indicators, such as “speed of committing staff to international activities””
A multidimensional perspective of SME internationalization speed: The influence of entrepreneurial characteristics (2019, background): “In line with previous empirical work on internationalization speed (Chetty et al., 2014; Hilmersson & Johanson, 2016; Hilmersson et al., 2017), the other two dimensions were”
Speed of SME Internationalization and Performance (2015, methodology): “The period after internationalization starts is studied in five articles (Chetty et al. 2014; Hilmersson 2014; Lin 2012; Morgan-Thomas and Jones 2009; Zhou 2007), but only three of them have a long-term perspective on speed (Chetty et al. 2014; Hilmersson 2014; Morgan-Thomas and Jones 2009).”