...Yee Peng Chow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between chair–chief executive officer (CEO) demographic dissimilarities and firm internationalization. Design/methodology/approach The pooled ordinary least squares regression is used on a sample of listed firms...

... selection and commitment associated with psychic distance. Although this theory is widely accepted and taken into consideration when studying firm internationalization, Ratten et al. (2007) argue that its major problem is its assumption in which a firm “gain experience, accumulate resources...

...Mark Lehrer; Sokol Celo Purpose This paper aims to provide a novel way of thinking about firm internationalization. We offer a stylized view of family firms as internationalizers who choose to engage in “boundary-spanning” across global product markets while engaging in “boundary-buffering...