...Yiyun Luo; Aiqi Wu; Xiaoting Wang Purpose Despite the vital role of niche leaders, little is known about their internationalization. The purpose of this study is to examine how niche leaders achieve internationalization success by investigating the role of specialization strategy...

...Yongzhi Du; Yi Xiang; Hongfei Ruan Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how the childhood trauma experiences of CEOs influence firms’ internationalization. Design/methodology/approach The research used a difference-in-difference method with constructing a treatment group whose chief...

... research to investigate the role of executives or CEOs in driving firm-level internationalization. Second, we also contribute to the emerging stream of social status research in international expansion studies and expand researchers’ limited understanding of the effects of social status in business...

...Zhu Zhang; Jiaqi Xue; Baoxin Qi Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of network in affecting private firms’ internationalization decision. Specifically, it investigates the way that business ties, political ties and status influence an internationalization decision. Design...

... on the relational perspective to investigate how family influence results in different international expansion. H3. Customer loyalty moderates the relationship between family influence and internationalization such that the relationship is stronger when customer loyalty is high than when it is low...

...Chao Zhou Purpose This paper aims to test the internationalization–performance relationship based on data of Chinese firms and the impact of firm size on the internationalization–performance relationship. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses overseas subsidiaries as a percentage...

... important in driving MNEs from emerging economies to internationalisation. Design/methodology/approach This study attempts to focus on kinship‐based collaborations from emerging economies to internationalization in the context of high‐tech industries by reviewing relevant studies and presents research...

... internationalization and firm performance, then investigates the roles of diversification, and examines how diversification moderates the relationship between internationalization and firm performance. For this purpose, panel data on 318 Chinese listed manufacturing firms during the period 1999‐2008 were utilized...