Abstract
Based on the CEPII-BACI database and China Customs database from 2000 to 2011, this paper combines the degree of export experience of enterprises with their own trade network to study the differential effects of accumulated export experience on the dynamic evolution of enterprises’ overseas market network structure and further explores it from the perspective of community and neighbors. The results of this study show the following. (1) The location choice of Chinese enterprises’ overseas market depends significantly on the structure of export network constructed in the past and tends to choose regions with closer geographical and economic ties as export target countries. There is a significant path dependence effect. However, enterprises with rich export experience are no longer subject to the constraints of geographical space and will make the overseas market layout more “decentralized.” (2) The decision making of export market location depends on the community distribution of export network. The path-dependent effect of export market layout in the export network community is significantly greater than that outside the community and tends to choose the intra-community region for overseas market layout. (3) The export network of adjacent enterprises has a significant impact on the location of enterprises’ overseas market. However, enterprises with rich export experience are less dependent on the geographic network expansion effect of their neighbors and tend to choose markets with close economic links.
Highlights
Whether the evolution of the overseas market network based on the enterprise’s export experience tends to be “aggregated” or “decentralized” at the geographic spatial level, there is no document to respond to this, and further verification and analysis are needed. e evolution of overseas market networks based on the effect of “export path dependence” is undoubtedly “clustered.” Due to the existence of “gravity,” enterprises tend to enter markets that are geographically close to or have similar characteristics to previous export markets, which leads to enterprises’ overseas markets being “clustered” in a certain area [8, 10, 19]
Enterprises with rich export experiences will no longer be limited by the previous export layout and can deploy their export overseas markets according to their own development strategies, which will inevitably lead to the “dispersion” of the enterprise’s future export markets
In order to test how enterprises can adjust the dynamic evolution of their overseas market network based on past export experience, and whether this dynamic evolution is “aggregated” or “decentralized,” this article needs to measure the characteristics of the export network of the enterprise’s geographic connection and economic connection and needs to describe the export experience accumulated by the enterprise that year
Summary
Rough the estimation of model (5), this paper can test the differential influence of accumulated export experience of enterprises on the expansion of enterprises’ overseas market network. Is paper uses formula (5) to test the dynamic evolution of overseas market networks based on previous export experience and introduces the differential influence of the export experience accumulated by enterprises on the above effects. On this basis, this article further extends the dimension to the perspective of “community” to test whether the evolution of corporate overseas market network connection has the characteristics of concentration within the community.
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