Liu, Xinrui ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9330-0974 (2024) The effect of returnees’ culturally imprinted international experience on internationalization speed. In: Academy of Management annual meeting proceedings (AOM 2024). Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024 (1). Academy of Management, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA. ISSN 0065-0668 (Print), 2151-6561 (Online) (doi:10.5465/AMPROC.2024.15356abstract)

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Abstract

Despite the importance of returnee entrepreneurs’ prior international experience (RIE), its conceptualization and effect on firm outcomes is not comprehensively understood. Drawing on social and cognitive learning theories, we propose that RIE host country is a critical learning context wherein their prior international experience was culturally imprinted. We examine the impact of culturally imprinted RIE on firms’ entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and post-entry speed of internationalization (PSI). Data from 216 Chinese exporting small-and-medium-sized enterprises show that RIE positively influences PSI both directly and indirectly through EO. Cultural distances between RIE host–home and RIE host–firm exporting country pairs moderate these relationships. Our findings align with the revisited Uppsala model concerning the importance of pre-history knowledge prior to the founding of firms. Our research makes novel contributions to the theoretical conceptualization of international experience and managerial implications for returnee entrepreneurship.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings:	Academy of Management annual meeting proceedings (AOM 2024)
Additional Information:	The 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024) took place in Chicago, Illinois, United States from 9-13 August 2024. Located in the Midwestern United States, Chicago is home to a vibrant mix of art, history, and cuisine. The first Annual Meeting was held there in 1936, and since has returned to the city 12 times. AOM 2024 explored the theme Innovating for the Future: Policy, Purpose, and Organization. - MP
Uncontrolled Keywords:	returnee, cultural distance, international experience, internationalization
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Greenwich Business School Greenwich Business School > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC) Greenwich Business School > School of Business, Operations and Strategy
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Last Modified:	22 May 2025 14:25
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/50513

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