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Internationalisation of British Start-up Companies in High-Technology Industries
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The present study analyses the international activities of British start-up companies in high-technology industries. The research makes the following contributions. First, it is the first study that establishes the prevalence of internationally operating start-up companies in a particular country. Accordingly, we find that the majority of British high-tech start-ups have engaged in international activities within a few years since formation. Second, it consolidates the existing knowledge in the fields of international entrepreneurship and subjects it to empirical testing. Third, it assesses the power of different theories in international business to explain the cross-border activities of start-up companies. Overall, the research lends support to a resource-based perspective of international entrepreneurship since the proxies for transaction cost-based arguments and the internationalisation process theory are of limited explanatory power.
Introduction -- Literature Review: Technology-Based Start-ups / NTBFs -- Empirical Evidence on International Entrepreneurship -- Theories of International Business -- Research Objective and Development of Hypotheses: Research Objective -- Research Hypotheses -- Methodology: The Survey Instrument -- Definition of High-Technology Start-ups -- Identification of Data Sources: The Use of Credit Rating Data -- The Primary Data Base -- The Questionnaire -- The Pilot Case Studies -- Mailing and Response Pattern -- Non-Response Analysis -- Descriptive Data Analysis: Methodological Considerations -- Decriptive Data Analysis: General Firm Characteristics -- Descriptive Data Analysis: International Activities -- Multivariate Data Analysis: Operationalisation of Independent Variables -- Differences between International Start-ups and Domestic Start-ups, the Degree of Internationalisation and Timing of Foreign Market Entry -- The Choice of Market Entry Mode -- Conclusions.
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