Liyun Liu

Since China's adoption of the “go global” strategy, more and more of China's privately owned enterprises have focused on outward foreign direct investment , and by doing so they have become the major market participants in China's internationalization process. This book presents authoritative academic and professional insights into the determinants of internationalization of China's indigenous privately owned enterprises. The case studies, in-depth interviews and investigations in this book will capture the interest of the readers and provide them with the background material and understanding of the determinants and possible pattern selection for internationalization of China's privately owned enterprises.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Literature Review of Enterprise Internationalization
• Policy Evolution
• A General Introduction to Internationalization of China's POEs
• Evidence from Firm-Level Survey Data
• Bound Entrepreneurship and Internationalization
• Case Study for Pattern Selection
• Pattern Selections

Readership: Students and researchers who are interested in understanding the determinants of internationalization of China's indigenous privately-owned enterprises.
Key Features:

• Provides quantitative research on internationalization of firms in China
• To provide a detailed and complete analysis, the author has conducted in-depth interviews and field investigation of enterprises. Econometrics analysis is then used to access the importance of various determinants
• The book has proposed the argument of bounded entrepreneurship for the first time, and thus provides an explanation of the unique internationalization patterns of China's privately-owned enterprises