The Internationalization of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms

Authors

Ilan Alon, Rollins CollegeFollow
Orly Yeheskel, Tel Aviv UniversityFollow
Miri Lerner, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv JaffaFollow
Wenxian Zhang, Rollins CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2013

Abstract

This article uses the resource-based and internationalization theories to explain the export behavior of Chinese entrepreneurial firms. Based on multi-year 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.

Comments

Published in Thunderbird International Business Review 55, no. 5 (2013): 495-512.

Published In

Alon, Ilan; Yeheskel, Orly; Lerner, Miri; and Zhang, Wenxian, "The Internationalization of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms" (2013). Faculty Publications. 101.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/as_facpub/101

Publication Title

Thunderbird International Business Review

ISSN

1520-6874

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.21566