The Knowledge-based resources of Venture Capital firms’ and Born Global firms’ internationalization
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

This study analyzes how venture capital firms’ (VCs’) value-added activities affect the speed and scope of the internationalization and growth of born global firms. The existing literature has gaps in terms of the resources that facilitate the development of born global firms and how VCs may contribute certain knowledge-based resources in this development. This study received a response rate of 26% to questionnaires sent to 593 VC-backed entrepreneurs in Sweden. The study complements the survey data with four years of annual report data and tests the relationship between VC value-added activities and the born global firms’ speed and scope with multivariate statistics. The results show that while born global firms are prevalent among Swedish VC-backed firms, there is no significant evidence that VC firms contribute to their speed and scope of internationalization through their knowledge-based resources.

growth

born globals

venture capital

entrepreneurship

internationalization

Sweden

Författare

Jan Abrahamsson

Stamford International University

Anders Isaksson

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Innovation and R&D Management

ASEAN Journal of Management & Innovation

2351-0307 (ISSN)

Vol. 5 1 30-46

Drivkrafter

Innovation och entreprenörskap

Ämneskategorier

Företagsekonomi

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