Internacionalização precoce: A importância das competências dos colaboradores e das redes relacionais
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2017
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Portuguese
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Early internationalization: The importance of skills and Relational Networks
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Baseado na avaliação das opiniões de diferentes empresários, este estudo procura averiguar qual a
importância atribuída a diversos fatores considerados potenciadores/indutores do processo de
internacionalização por parte das empresas que se internacionalizam cedo no seu ciclo de vida. São
considerados fatores como as redes relacionais, as competências específicas dos empresários e a
experiência internacional dos colaboradores. O estudo empírico é efetuado com base numa amostra
de 320 empresas portuguesas sendo utilizadas metodologias de Análise Exploratória de Dados e
metodologias de Inferência Estatística Univariada. Foram encontradas evidências da importância
para os empresários portugueses das Redes Relacionais, bem como das Competências Específicas
dos Colaboradores, da Experiência Internacional dos Colaboradores, em consonância com a Teoria
das Redes, a Teoria do Capital Humano, a Teoria das International New Ventures, a Population
Ecology Approach e com a Attention Based View.
Based on the evaluation of the opinions of different entrepreneurs, this study seeks to determine the importance attributed to several factors considered as inducers of the internationalization process by companies that are internationalized early in their life cycle. Factors such as the relational networks, entrepreneurs’ specific skills and international experience of employees are considered. The empirical study is conducted on a sample of 320 Portuguese companies being used Data Exploratory Analysis methodologies and Univariate Statistical Inference methodologies. Evidence was found of the importance for Portuguese entrepreneurs of Relational Networks, as well as the specific competences of the employees, the International Experience of employees, in line with Network Theory, the Human Capital Theory, the Theory of International New Ventures, the Population Ecology Approach and the Attention based View.
Based on the evaluation of the opinions of different entrepreneurs, this study seeks to determine the importance attributed to several factors considered as inducers of the internationalization process by companies that are internationalized early in their life cycle. Factors such as the relational networks, entrepreneurs’ specific skills and international experience of employees are considered. The empirical study is conducted on a sample of 320 Portuguese companies being used Data Exploratory Analysis methodologies and Univariate Statistical Inference methodologies. Evidence was found of the importance for Portuguese entrepreneurs of Relational Networks, as well as the specific competences of the employees, the International Experience of employees, in line with Network Theory, the Human Capital Theory, the Theory of International New Ventures, the Population Ecology Approach and the Attention based View.
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Internacionalização, Competências, Redes, Internationalization, Skills, Networks
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Lobo, C. A., & Maldonado I. (2017). Internacionalização precoce: A importância das competências dos colaboradores e das redes relacionais. Proceedings of the XXVII Jornadas Hispano-Lusas de Gestión Científica, Alicante, Espanha, 2-4 fev.2017. Disponível no Repositório UPT, http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1819
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