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The Mediating Effect of the Absorptive Capacity in the International Entrepreneurial Orientation of Family Firms

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Decision Economics: In the Tradition of Herbert A. Simon's Heritage (DCAI 2017)

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This paper analyzes the mediating effect of absorptive capacities (ACAP) on the impact of international entrepreneurial orientation on the international performance of family firms. We focus on family businesses because of their importance in generating employment and wealth. For data analysis, we used a structural equation model PLS-SEM. The main conclusions of this study are that the international performance of family firms can be explained by the influence of the international entrepreneurial orientation and that the absorptive capacity has a mediating role in the previous relationship.

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cobertizo de San Pedro Mártir, s/n, 45071, Toledo, Spain

    Felipe Hernández-Perlines

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    Edgardo Bucciarelli

  2. Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shu-Heng Chen

  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

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Hernández-Perlines, F. (2018). The Mediating Effect of the Absorptive Capacity in the International Entrepreneurial Orientation of Family Firms. In: Bucciarelli, E., Chen, SH., Corchado, J. (eds) Decision Economics: In the Tradition of Herbert A. Simon's Heritage. DCAI 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 618. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60882-2_16

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