Influences of international experience and business diversification in internationalization degree of Brazilian Multinationals

This article is positioned in the literature on the internationalization process of Brazilian multinational companies. As some multinational companies internationalize with greater speed and have better performance than others, this study, the effects were examined two-dimensional - The time of international experience and business diversification - the degree of internationalization of Brazilian multinationals. For the research we used secondary data from the Transnationality Index of Brazilian Companies of the Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), Brazilian Multinational Observatory of the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), as well as information of the BM&FBovespa and the fields of internet of the 43 surveyed companies and their subsidiaries. The results indicate that the diversification of the company's business is positively related to the degree of internationalization. The previous international experience does not seem to be a predictor of the degree of internationalization, which may relate to the internationalization process of Brazilian multinationals be a phenomena still relatively recent