caa a22 4500 445849479 CHVBK 20180317145409.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10843-010-0066-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10843-010-0066-6 The impact of transport costs on new venture internationalisation [Elektronische Daten] [Wim Naudé, Marianne Matthee] This paper investigates the importance of transport costs in new venture internationalisation, i.e. of firms that start exporting before they are 3years of age. It does so by merging two large international datasets, on the firm level (covering 49,584 firms) as well as on the country level (covering 154 countries). It is found that transport costs matter significantly for new venture internationalisation, for older firms' decision to export, as well as the extent of the latter's subsequent exports. Export costs, the quality of transport infrastructure and domestic logistics costs affect new venture internationalisation even when controlling for a range of standard determinants. New international ventures behave differently from older firms in two important ways: (1) Transport costs affect the probability that they will export but not the extent of their subsequent exports and (2) their probability of exporting is affected negatively by their networking, domestic success and ISO status, whilst in the case of older firms, these factors have a positive impact. Various recommendations for policy and further research are made. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 International entrepreneurship nationallicence Internationalisation nationallicence Exports nationallicence Transport costs nationallicence Trade logistics nationallicence Naudé Wim World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Katajanokanlaituri 6b, 00160, Helsinki, Finland aut Matthee Marianne School of Economics, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa aut Journal of International Entrepreneurship Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/1(2011-03-01), 62-89 1570-7385 9:1<62 2011 9 10843 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-010-0066-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-010-0066-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Naudé Wim World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Katajanokanlaituri 6b, 00160, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Matthee Marianne School of Economics, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of International Entrepreneurship Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/1(2011-03-01), 62-89 1570-7385 9:1<62 2011 9 10843 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer