Familiness and Born Globals: Rapid Internationalisation among Polish Family Firms

• Authors: Krzysztof Wach
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Rapid internationalisation is a very popular research theme internationally. Verifying the links between familiness of the investigated firms and the accelerated internationalisation among Polish family firms can be very promising. The objective of the paper is to identify the rapid internationalisation path of Polish family firms while going international from the comparative perspective of the familiness. The paper presents the research results of the survey conducted in the turn of 2013-2014 among 216 firms, including 88 family businesses. Based on the calculations we can assume that the average time of internationalisation measured from the establishment is the longer in case of family firms than non-family firms. It can be with the line to the statement that born globals are more frequently met among non-family firms.

Keywords

EN

born global; internationalisation; international entrepreneurship; small and medium-sized enterprises; family firms; family entrepreneurship

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Intercultural Management
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 177-186

Dates

published

2015-09-01

online

2015-08-04

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Wach

• Cracow University of Economics

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/joim-2014-0028