International commitment, post-entry growth and survival of international new ventures

This paper makes several contributions to the emerging literature on the post-entry behavior of international new ventures. Based on an extensive longitudinal data set, we investigate the dynamics of commitment, growth and survival of different types of newly internationalizing Belgian firms. Global start-ups have the highest initial and rapidly rising export commitment per market and are also more likely to continue exporting over time than geographically focused start-ups, and traditional staged exporters. However, global start-ups also display the highest failure rate. This high failure rate appears to result primarily fromthe ‘liability of newness’ and less from the added complexity associated with rapid and wide scope internationalization. publisher: Elsevier articletitle: International commitment, post-entry growth and survival of international new ventures journaltitle: Journal of Business Venturing articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.01.001 content_type: article copyright: Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ispartof: Journal of Business Venturing vol:29 issue:1 pages:101-120 status: published