We examine determinants of different types of International New Ventures (INVs), namely Export Start-up, Geographically Focused Start-up, Multinational Trader, and Global Start-up. Whereas this typology of INVs has been widely accepted in the literature, empirical testing of the determinants of...

The central question that we address is how young technology firms (YTFs) learn about foreign markets when they venture abroad for the very first time. Drawing on learning theory, we develop and test a model for the entry learning and foreign-venture performance of YTF. Our empirical results...