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Abstract
The international expansion of Chinese firms is a remarkable phenomenon of contemporary international business. However, international expansion is particularly challenging for firms expanding from emerging market economies such as China because they have relatively few ownership advantages and suffer disadvantages. We apply a corporate entrepreneurship perspective to explore this under-researched topic via a longitudinal case study of a large Chinese business conglomerate. Thirty-one semistructured interviews and seven focus-group discussions were conducted with 55 informants; company documents were also analyzed. We found sophisticated pre-entry entrepreneurial initiatives are critical for successful internationalization, as they enable emerging market firms to overcome some constraints, leverage their assets, and build competences for international venturing.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 243-254 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Thunderbird International Business Review |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2019 |
Keywords
- China
- corporate entrepreneurship
- emerging market economies
- internationalization
- multinational enterprise
- pre-entry strategy
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Managing human resources in an advanced economy from the perspective of emerging Chinese multinationals: The case of NWII in Australia
Zhu, J., Chen, Z. X., De Cieri, H., Dowling, P. & Zhang, M. M.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Northwest Mining and Geology Group Co., Ltd for Nonferrous Metals
1/07/11 → 22/12/16
Project: Research