The effects of entrepreneurs’ characteristics on internationalisation of gazelle firms: a case of Lithuania

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1331677X.2019.1655658" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1331677X.2019.1655658</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2019.1655658" target="_blank" >10.1080/1331677X.2019.1655658</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The effects of entrepreneurs’ characteristics on internationalisation of gazelle firms: a case of Lithuania

Original language description

In recent years so-called Gazelle firms or high growth firms (H.G.F.s) have been the interest of policymakers, however little is known about entrepreneur-level determinants affecting internationalisation of these firms. Thus, the research aims to extend the literature addressing the impact of entrepreneurs' characteristics on the internationalisation of H.G.F.s in Lithuania. The research sample was drawn from the population of Lithuanian H.G.F.s directly approaching the owners and members of the management team. The final sample included 177 internationalised firms. The analysis was based on the binomial logistic regression to test the hypotheses. The results reveal that entrepreneurial networks and foreign language capabilities of owners/managers are good predictors of internationalisation degree. However, the research confirms the decreasing effect of domestic ties, the higher degree of internationalisation. The research did not reveal the significance of entrepreneurial and managerial competencies of owners/managers for internationalisation success. Furthermore, the study did not support the relationship of owners/managers' education abroad and internationalisation. The research makes the twofold contribution to the extant literature. First, the research develops and tests the relationships surrounding the internationalisation of H.G.F.s as related to managerial and entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial networks and international background of owners/managers. Second, the research highlights entrepreneur-level determinants affecting internationalisation of H.G.F.s in Central and Eastern European (C.E.E.) country’s context.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

ISSN

1331-677X

e-ISSN

1848-9664

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

2864-2881

UT code for WoS article

000486069100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85073000006