TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese Early Internationalizing Firms
T2 - A Review and Research Agenda
AU - Jie, Shuijing
AU - Singh, Deeksha
AU - Ma, Hongjia
AU - Li, Chenwei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2024/1/6
Y1 - 2024/1/6
N2 - The rise of Chinese early internationalizing firms (CEIFs) has attracted increasing interest from international entrepreneurship scholars. However, a clear consolidation and integration of extant literature on CEIFs is missing. This article reviews scholarship on CEIFs and examines specific areas in need of further development. A systematic framework organizes the findings on the basis of a content analysis and identifies three thematic categories of inquiry, related to the antecedents, elements, and outcomes of CEIFs. Our review summarizes four major research streams and identifies future directions in each of these streams. The review offers insights for scholars devoted to the study of CEIFs and provides recommendations for international entrepreneurs.
AB - The rise of Chinese early internationalizing firms (CEIFs) has attracted increasing interest from international entrepreneurship scholars. However, a clear consolidation and integration of extant literature on CEIFs is missing. This article reviews scholarship on CEIFs and examines specific areas in need of further development. A systematic framework organizes the findings on the basis of a content analysis and identifies three thematic categories of inquiry, related to the antecedents, elements, and outcomes of CEIFs. Our review summarizes four major research streams and identifies future directions in each of these streams. The review offers insights for scholars devoted to the study of CEIFs and provides recommendations for international entrepreneurs.
KW - China
KW - Early internationalizing firms
KW - International entrepreneurship
KW - Review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85181524014&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10490-023-09942-0
DO - 10.1007/s10490-023-09942-0
M3 - Article
SN - 0217-4561
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
ER -