An integrated approach for entry mode choices in foreign markets: the case of Italian medium sized companies

Research on international high-control entry mode has tended to concentrate on large firms. For this reason we want to test the applicability of one traditional topic of International Business research – the choice between equity and non-equity entry modes – to a specific firms category: the mid-sized one. At this aim, the paper provides two main contributions: 1) it proposes an integration of three perspectives, transaction cost, institutional and resource-based theory; 2) it empirically verifies the applicability to the medium sized firms of the proposed framework.