An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Industry Factors in the Internationalization Patterns of Firms

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dc.contributor.author	Grøgaard, Birgitte	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gioia, Carmine	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Benito, Gabriel R.G.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:27:26Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:27:26Z
dc.date.issued	2005-11-22T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	8791815118	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7477
dc.description.abstract	Research on companies’ internationalization has mainly focused on firm-level and country-level factors in order to explain firms’ cross-border activities. With the exception of a limited number of studies emphasizing rivalistic behavior in oligopolistic industries, industry factors have been neglected as potential determinants of companies’ internationalization. We argue that differences across industries with regard to competition level, research intensity, tangibility of the products, and the existence of clusters should influence the impetus and opportunities to internationalize. This study examines the role of such factors using data covering the internationalization patterns of the 100 largest non-financial Norwegian companies over the period 1990 to 2000. We find that industry factors contribute significantly to explaining the internationalization of these companies, and that the effects of industry factors remain strong when firm-level characteristics are taken into account. Key words: Internationalization, multinational companies, industry factors, Norway JEL classification: F21, F23, L10	en_US
dc.format.extent	36 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	SMG Working paper;2005-009	en_US
dc.title	An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Industry Factors in the Internationalization Patterns of Firms	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt05nov22 miel	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Center for Strategi og Globalisering	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	SMG	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Center for Strategic Management and Globalization	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	SMG	en_US
dc.description.notes	Acknowledgements: Research funding was provided by the Research Council of Norway (project 139982/510, "Globalization and internationalization of the Norwegian Economy").	en_US
dc.idnumber	8791815118	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2005	en_US