TY - JOUR
T1 - Stage models re-visited
T2 - a measure of the stage of internationalisation of a firm
AU - Wickramasekera, Rumintha
AU - Oczkowski, Edward
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Management International Review. ISSNs: 0938-8249;
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper presents a scale to measure the stage of internationalisation of a firm which depicts export development as an innovation adoption process. A fourstage, multi-item scale ranging from export awareness, interest, trial to adoption is developed. ' The analysis is based on two independent surveys of Australian wineries. Systematic procedures of scale development are followed including the use of confirmatory factor analysis for scale validation. Key Results ' The four stage model of internationalisation is shown to possess good psychometric proprieties. The data analysis suggests a strong negative correlation between the first stage of awareness and the other stages, and strong positive correlations among the last three stages of internationalisation
AB - This paper presents a scale to measure the stage of internationalisation of a firm which depicts export development as an innovation adoption process. A fourstage, multi-item scale ranging from export awareness, interest, trial to adoption is developed. ' The analysis is based on two independent surveys of Australian wineries. Systematic procedures of scale development are followed including the use of confirmatory factor analysis for scale validation. Key Results ' The four stage model of internationalisation is shown to possess good psychometric proprieties. The data analysis suggests a strong negative correlation between the first stage of awareness and the other stages, and strong positive correlations among the last three stages of internationalisation
U2 - 10.1007/s11575-007-0048-7
DO - 10.1007/s11575-007-0048-7
M3 - Article
SN - 0938-8249
VL - 46
SP - 39
EP - 55
JO - Management International Review
JF - Management International Review
IS - 1
ER -