Ownership and the Internationalization of Small Firms

By Gerard George, Johan Wiklund, Shaker A. Zahra. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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The Relationship between Slack Resources and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of Venture Capital and Angel Investors (2013, unknown): “Private investors, such as VC and angel investors, are typically one of the most important owners in entrepreneurial firms, ranked second behind entrepreneurs themselves (George et al., 2005).”
Geographical pathways for SME internationalization: insights from an Italian sample (2013, background): “Previous studies have underlined the importance of specialists to successfully manage foreign activities (George et al., 2005; Katsikeas et al., 2000), and we therefore propose that:”
A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on how Collaboration Intensity, Trust, and International Market Knowledge affect Family Firms' Multinationality (2016, background): “For example, Calabrò et al. (2013), Cerrato and Piva (2012), George, Wiklund, and Zahra (2005), and Liu, Lin, and Cheng (2011) report negative influence by family involvement, ownership, and control on the degree of internationalization, but Zahra (2003) finds a positive effect by family ownership.”
Venture Capitalists as Catalysts to New Venture Internationalization: The Impact of Their Knowledge and Reputation Resources (2009, unknown): “A VC' s reputation will be accorded greater legitimacy as a basis for signaling a new venture's likely performance in international markets when that VC has an extensive record of prior experience with international investments (George et al., 2005).”
Ownership as a Form of Corporate Governance (2010, unknown): “In contrast to product diversification, all types of institutional owners generally support international diversification (George et al., 2005), but for different reasons (Tihanyi et al., 2003).”
Small and medium-sized enterprise internationalisation strategy and performance in times of market turbulence (2014, background): “, 2011), it is suggested that in a globalising economy, it might be even more risky not to internationalise (George et al., 2005).”
Friends, Family, or Fools: Entrepreneur Experience and its Implications for Equity Distribution and Resource Mobilization (2012, background): “Because these equity structures have persistent effects on future decisions (George et al., 2005; Zahra et al., 2000), these findings have merit both in theories of organizational emergence and the practice of entrepreneurship.”
The Effects of Ownership and Governance on SMEs’ International Knowledge-based Resources (2007, methodology): “Researchers have examined the determinants of SMEs internationalization, using multiple perspectives (Brush and Chaganti, 1999; George et al., 2005; Westhead et al., 2001; Zahra et al., 2000).”
Risk aversion in family firms: what do we really know? (2012, background): “Because of these two opposing lines of argumentation regarding risk aversion or risk-taking behavior in family firms, numerous studies on the risk-taking behavior of family firms have been conducted and published in high-caliber journals in recent years (George et al., 2005; Gómez-Mejı́a et al., 200”
The impact of venture capital financing method on SME performance and internationalization (2011, background): “Lockett et al. 2008; Barney et al. 2001; Pruthi et al. 2003; and George et al. 2005 ).”