We adopt a two-stage, contingency approach to analyze the relationship between timing of entry and subsidiary survival. We develop and test hypotheses concerning determinants of the timing of entry, and hypotheses about asset-based competitive advantage moderators of timing of entry's influence...

The resource-based view of the firm is used to develop a causal model for export strategy and performance.After a discussion of the evolution of export research and the resource-based view of the firm, the conceptual model is presented.A number of hypotheses are suggested by the model,...