ABSTRACT List of Table List of Figure Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 International Entrepreneurship -- a Brief Review 1.2 Research estions 1.3 Research Settings 1.4 Research Methodology 1.5 Outline of the Study 1.6Chapter Summary Chapter 2 Literature Review 2.1 Literature Review of International Entrepreneurship Theory 2.1.1 Uppsala Internationalization Theory 2.1.2 Network Theory 2.2 International Entrepreneurship Theory 2.2.1 International Entrepreneurship 2.2.2 Definition and Domain of International Entrepreneurship 2.. International Entrepreneurship in this study . Research Streams on International Entrepreneurship ..1 Organizational Factors ..2 Environmental Factors .. Straticactors ..4 Summary of Research Streams 2.4Chapter Summary Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses 3.1 Theoretical Framework 3.1.1 Institutional theory in international entrepreneurship 3.1.2 Organizational learning in international entrepreneurship 3.2 Development of the hypotheses 3.2. 1 The antecedent of international entrepreneurship 3.2.2 The mediating effects: international entrepreneurship in exploitative and exploratory learning 3.. The effects of exploitative and exploratory learning in performance 3.3Chapter Summary Chapter 4 Research Methodology 4.1 Sample 4.2 Data Collection 4.2.2 Final Data Collection 4.3 Measures 4.3.1 Measures of International Entrepreneurship 4.3.2 Measures of Exploitative and Exploratory Learning 4.3.3 Measures of Internationalization of Organiza- tional Field 4.3.4 Measures of Performance 4.3.5 Control Variables 4, 4 Validity and Reliability of the Constructs 4.4.1 Content Validity 4.4.2 Convergent Validity 4.4.3 Discriminant Validity 4.4.4 Coite Reliability and Average Variance Extracted 4.5 Analysis Methods 4.5.1 Analysis Techniques 4.5.2 Multicollinearity Problem 4.5.3 Another Analysis Methods 4.6Chapter Summary Chapter 5 Results and Hypotheses Testing 5.1 Mean Scores and Correlation Coefficients 5.2 Tests of Direct Effect and Mediating Effects(H1 to H5) 5.2.1 Tests of Direct Effect ( H1, H2 and H4) 5.2.2 Tests of Mediating Effects ( H3 ) 5.. Tests of Mediating Effects (H5) 5.3 Tests of Invert U-shape (H6 and H7) 5.4Chapter Summary Chapter 6 Discussion, Implications, Limitations and Future Research 6.1 Discussion of Results 6.2 Contributions 6.3 Implications 6.4 Limitations and Directions for Future Research 6.5 Conclusions References Appendix 1 Appendix 2
杨海儒编著的《国际企业家精神与合法化》介绍:This study aims to explore what is the motivation of international entrepre neurship in the domestic markendhw international entrepreneurial firms sure n foreign market. Based on a sample of 212 Chinese international firms, it examines the internationalization of organizational field as an antecedent of international entrepreneurship from a neoinstitutional theory perspective. Exploitative and exploratory learning are considered as conse quences of international entrepreneurship, because firms seek to achieve legitimacy in the host country. The nonlinear relationship between exploit ative and exploratory learning and performance are further tested.Findings suggesthtismorphic pressurefrom the organizational field will cause firms to engagein international entrepreneurial activities.