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Disentangling the drivers of family firms internationalization through the lens of socioemotional wealth

verfasst von: Fynn-Willem Lohe, Andrea Calabrò, Mariateresa Torchia

Erschienen in: Journal of International Entrepreneurship | Ausgabe 4/2021

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By conducting a case study on eight large family firms, the aim of this article is to identify push and pull factors motivating family firms to internationalize and how they relate to decision-makers’ risk taking. We identified different types of internationalizing family firms. While some are pushed towards international markets by competition and put at risk the stock of affect-related value that the family has invested in the firm (socioemotional wealth), others face a “mixed gamble” of push and pull factors especially when they are led by non-family managers.

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Many studies follow these FIBER dimensions by Berrone et al. (2012). This article makes rather indirect use of specific SEW dimensions and mainly refers to the existing knowledge produced on the role of various non-financial goals for international risk taking.

This paper is based on a research project which has been done in partnership with DEG/KFW (https://www.deginvest.de/International-financing/DEG/).

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Titel: Disentangling the drivers of family firms internationalization through the lens of socioemotional wealth
verfasst von: Fynn-Willem Lohe
Andrea Calabrò
Mariateresa Torchia
Publikationsdatum: 16.03.2021
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of International Entrepreneurship / Ausgabe 4/2021
Print ISSN: 1570-7385
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7349
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-021-00284-w

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