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Luis López

Researcher at INCAE Business School

Publications -  23
Citations -  1206

Luis López is an academic researcher from INCAE Business School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Internationalization & Emerging markets. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1038 citations.

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An Exploratory Study in the Costa Rican Software Industry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided empirical evidence about born-global firms in the software industry of Costa Rica, a small developing country with an open economy, based on data collected through interviews with CEOs or founders of 40 Costa Rican software companies.
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Born global or born regional? Evidence from an exploratory study in the Costa Rican software industry

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided empirical evidence about born-global firms in the software industry of Costa Rica, a small developing country with an open economy, based on data collected through interviews with CEOs or founders of 40 Costa Rican software companies.
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Country of origin and network effects on internationalization: A comparative study of SMEs from an emerging and developed economy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the internationalization of high technology small and medium enterprises (HTSMEs) and explore how they develop and use networks to penetrate their first foreign market relying on information collected via direct interviews with the CEOs or founders of 58 HTSME firms that operate internationally.
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Home country uncertainty and the internationalization-performance relationship: Building an uncertainty management capability

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the impact of home country uncertainty on the internationalization-performance relationship of emerging market firms and argued that this relationship is strengthened for firms based in emerging countries with higher corruption and political risk.
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First-mover advantages in regimes of weak appropriability: the case of financial services innovations

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of order of market entry on market share in the financial services industry in an international setting were analyzed using historical methods, and they found important market share advantages to early entry in financial services innovations.