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Internationalization of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms
Author(s) -
Alon Ilan,
Yeheskel Orly,
Lerner Miri,
Zhang Wenxian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.21566
Subject(s) - internationalization , resource (disambiguation) , business , entrepreneurship , product (mathematics) , emerging markets , industrial organization , economic geography , economics , international trade , computer network , geometry , mathematics , finance , computer science
This article uses the resource‐based and internationalization theories to explain the export behavior of Chinese entrepreneurial firms. Based on multiyear data on Chinese firms from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), we show that contextualized resource‐based theory can adequately explain some of the variation in export behavior among young Chinese firms. Exports by small Chinese firms are driven by the social and intellectual capital of the entrepreneur and their entrepreneurial proclivity, and the innovativeness/uniqueness of the product/offering. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.