The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms

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ID12873449
AutoresGuido Rojer (0000-0002-2805-9499, University of Curaçao, autor de correspondencia), Karen Watkins-Fassler (0000-0002-2715-9420, Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Misantla), Rebeca de Juan Díaz, Anoop Rai (0000-0002-7640-9502, Hofstra University)
Año2022
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIsland Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1715-2593 • E-ISSN: 1715-2593
EditorialIsland Studies Journal (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24043/isj.406
OpenAlexW4312243761
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas21

This paper examines the impact of CEO characteristics on the International Entrepreneurship (IE) of listed island-based firms (IBFs) during the period 2009-2018. The research considers 164 companies from a sample of eight small islands with securities exchanges including more than one firm headquartered on the island. The selected islands are: Barbados, Cyprus, Fiji, Iceland, Jamaica, Malta, Mauritius, and Trinidad & Tobago. Framed on the upper echelons theory and social network theory, the influence on IE of CEO’s tenure, academic background and achievement, family allegiance, and international exposure is studied, taking into account the small island particularities. Through a binary probit model, it is concluded that CEOs’ family allegiance, tenure, and academic background (if the CEO majored in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or Economics) are negatively related with IE, while CEOs’ academic achievement and international exposure are positively associated with IE. Some of these results are atypical in the existing literature; nevertheless, islandness can explain these results. The conclusions attained suggest new theoretical and empirical lines of IE research for IBFs

Allegiance · Business · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Ordered probit · Political science · Probit · Probit model · Sample (material · Corporate Finance and Governance · Family Business Performance and Succession · International Business and FDI · Law · Accounting · Finance