Abstract
Knowledge is an endless resource as well as the key source of competitive advantage for enterprises. In the era of globalization with knowledge economy and network economy, the internationalization growth of enterprises is facing new challenges. Under such situations, an enterprise has to stress on the resource integration of internal network and reduce international business risks by developing the external network relationship to enhance the internationalization performance. With on-site questionnaire distribution and collection, enterprises with export-oriented manufacturing in Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang areas are distributed 400 copies of questionnaire in this study. Total 302 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 75.5%. The research results are summarized as below. 1. Dual network embeddedness presents significantly positive effects on organizational learning. 2. Dual network embeddedness shows remarkably positive effects on internationalization performance. 3. Organizational learning reveals notably positive effects on internationalization performance. It is expected to apply the research results to the internationalization growth or transnational business development of enterprises, to enhance the strategic performance and financial performance, and to be the reference for research on network embeddedness and organizational learning.
Highlights
Knowledge is an endless resource as well as the key source of competitive advantage for enterprises
An enterprise has to stress on the resource integration of internal network and reduce international business risks by developing the external network relationship to enhance the internationalization performance
The research results are expected to be applied to the international business development of enterprises, to enhance the internationalization performance, and to be the reference for research on network embeddedness
Summary
Polanyi first proposed the idea of “embeddedness” to explain the effects of non-system factors and noneconomy factors in human economy (Karl, 1957). Halinen & Tornroos (1995) regarded network embeddedness as the relationship or dependency between enterprises and various networks. An enterprise could rapidly respond to the market needs because of the mutual explanation of network members to further accelerate the internationalization process and promote the internationalization performance of the enterprise In this case, the following hypothesis is proposed in this study. Relationship between organizational learning and internationalization performance Knowledge is regarded as the key resource in the internationalization process of an enterprise (Oviatt & McDougall, 2005), and learning international market knowledge is essential for accelerate the internationalization process of an enterprise (Wach, 2015). From the viewpoints of network and organizational learning, Mathews (2006) further proposed the linkage-leveraging-learning (LLL) model and considered that enterprises with emerging economies acquired external resources through joint in the international expansion and updated the learning from the repeated linkage and leveraging effect to help accelerate the internationalization process. Based on above literature review, the research framework is drafted to discuss the relations among dual network embeddedness, organizational learning, and internationalization performance
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