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The effect of immigrants in the founding team on the international attention of new ventures

verfasst von: Jana Drechsler, Jan-Thomas Bachmann, Andreas Engelen

Erschienen in: Journal of International Entrepreneurship | Ausgabe 3/2019

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Do immigrants as part of founding teams lead to internationally recognized new ventures? Using secondary data from multiple sources, we find a positive relationship between immigrants on the founding team of digitized US-based new ventures and international attention of the firm and that this relationship is negatively moderated by both the financial situation of the new venture and the size of the new venture’s top management team. Our findings suggest that founders from foreign nationalities play a key role in the international attention attraction efforts of newly founded US firms. Thus, it is emphasized that immigrant entrepreneurs play a key role in enabling internationalization efforts of new ventures, especially by aligning available resources with international operations of new ventures.

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Titel: The effect of immigrants in the founding team on the international attention of new ventures
verfasst von: Jana Drechsler
Jan-Thomas Bachmann
Andreas Engelen
Publikationsdatum: 29.05.2019
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of International Entrepreneurship / Ausgabe 3/2019
Print ISSN: 1570-7385
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7349
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-019-00248-1

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