Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience

This paper examines how different forms of accumulated exploitable knowledge—i.e., export experience with the current firm and past entrepreneurial experience—stimulate export destinations, defined as the number of foreign markets where businesses sell their products/services. The proposed hypothese...

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Autores: Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel|||0000-0001-5889-7656, Vaillant, Yancy, Alvarado, Marco, Mora-Esquivel, Ronald, Vendrell Herrero, Ferran
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/336824
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/336824
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101765
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Entrepreneurship
Exports
Learning strategies
Serial entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial experience
Generative learning process
Internationalization
Export destinations
Emprenedoria
Exportacions
Estratègies d'aprenentatge
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Macroeconomia::Comerç internacional
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spelling Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experienceLafuente González, Esteban Miguel|||0000-0001-5889-7656Vaillant, YancyAlvarado, MarcoMora-Esquivel, RonaldVendrell Herrero, FerranEntrepreneurshipExportsLearning strategiesEntrepreneurshipSerial entrepreneursEntrepreneurial experienceGenerative learning processInternationalizationExport destinationsEmprenedoriaExportacionsEstratègies d'aprenentatgeÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Macroeconomia::Comerç internacionalThis paper examines how different forms of accumulated exploitable knowledge—i.e., export experience with the current firm and past entrepreneurial experience—stimulate export destinations, defined as the number of foreign markets where businesses sell their products/services. The proposed hypotheses are tested on a unique sample of Costa Rican entrepreneurial businesses for 2017. Results from the sequential deductive triangulation analysis (QUAN ¿ qual) reveal that the ambidextrous connection between export experience with the current firm and past entrepreneurial experience is an essential prerequisite for explaining export destination figures. Also, the positive effect of export experience with the current business on export destinations is more prevalent among firms created by serial entrepreneurs. These findings corroborate our argument line on the importance of generative-based learning processes. Furthermore, the results of the qualitative analysis suggest that task-specific international experience and experience gained through past business venturing are relevant micro-foundations of international business expansion in the context of the export destinations of entrepreneurial firms.Peer Reviewed20212021-01-0120212021-02-03journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AOhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_b1a7d7d4d402bcceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/336824https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101765reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/3368242026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
title Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
spellingShingle Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel|||0000-0001-5889-7656
Entrepreneurship
Exports
Learning strategies
Entrepreneurship
Serial entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial experience
Generative learning process
Internationalization
Export destinations
Emprenedoria
Exportacions
Estratègies d'aprenentatge
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Macroeconomia::Comerç internacional
title_short Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
title_full Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
title_fullStr Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
title_full_unstemmed Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
title_sort Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel|||0000-0001-5889-7656
Vaillant, Yancy
Alvarado, Marco
Mora-Esquivel, Ronald
Vendrell Herrero, Ferran
author Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel|||0000-0001-5889-7656
author_facet Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel|||0000-0001-5889-7656
Vaillant, Yancy
Alvarado, Marco
Mora-Esquivel, Ronald
Vendrell Herrero, Ferran
author_role author
author2 Vaillant, Yancy
Alvarado, Marco
Mora-Esquivel, Ronald
Vendrell Herrero, Ferran
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Entrepreneurship
Exports
Learning strategies
Entrepreneurship
Serial entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial experience
Generative learning process
Internationalization
Export destinations
Emprenedoria
Exportacions
Estratègies d'aprenentatge
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Macroeconomia::Comerç internacional
topic Entrepreneurship
Exports
Learning strategies
Entrepreneurship
Serial entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial experience
Generative learning process
Internationalization
Export destinations
Emprenedoria
Exportacions
Estratègies d'aprenentatge
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Macroeconomia::Comerç internacional
description This paper examines how different forms of accumulated exploitable knowledge—i.e., export experience with the current firm and past entrepreneurial experience—stimulate export destinations, defined as the number of foreign markets where businesses sell their products/services. The proposed hypotheses are tested on a unique sample of Costa Rican entrepreneurial businesses for 2017. Results from the sequential deductive triangulation analysis (QUAN ¿ qual) reveal that the ambidextrous connection between export experience with the current firm and past entrepreneurial experience is an essential prerequisite for explaining export destination figures. Also, the positive effect of export experience with the current business on export destinations is more prevalent among firms created by serial entrepreneurs. These findings corroborate our argument line on the importance of generative-based learning processes. Furthermore, the results of the qualitative analysis suggest that task-specific international experience and experience gained through past business venturing are relevant micro-foundations of international business expansion in the context of the export destinations of entrepreneurial firms.
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