| Research Significance of the PaperIn the current era, economic globalization is one of the most significant features, simultaneously developed with the trend of world multipolarization and scientific & technological informatization. Economic globalization is an irreversible historical trend. It has profound impact on enterprises of various countries, especially the developing countries. Economic globalization has two significant features on enterprises: first, scaling: such scaling is not conventionally the huge organizational structure, while, supported by new technical means, the virtual scaling resulted from organizational innovation will become the new interpretation of scaling; secondly, efficiency: any scaling without support of efficiency is just a"Scaling that is not Economic", which will be washed out by the market eventually. Economic globalization with such significant features provides a very rare opportunity for internationalized operation of small & medium-sized enterprises.China's access to WTO is the first step of our country to economic globalization, featuring the process of our country's economy to actually blend into the mainstream of the world economy and participate in economic globalization. The competitive position of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises is also turned from competition of domestic market between domestic enterprises, to more direct, more comprehensive, and more vehement competition on the large stage of the world economy with foreign enterprises. Of course, after access to WTO, it also means that our country may enjoy multilateral, unconditional, and stable most-favored-nation clause. This is a good opportunity to facilitate small & medium-sized enterprises to conduct globalizing industrial structure adjustment, comprehensively develop international market, expand foreign trade, and participate in international division of labor, and strive for larger international cooperation space. Access to WTO is an unprecedented opportunity and challenge faced by our country's small & medium-sized enterprises. The knowledge economy, with its arrival, gives a new connotation to economic globalization. Rise of the knowledge industry, and combination of computer technology and communication technology, increasingly make the world more open, and the global competition more vehement. International competition of enterprises is also characterized mainly by competition of efficiency and quality. The key to decide victory and defeat depends on intellectual resources and enterprises'innovation ability other than scale size. In the era of knowledge economy, small & medium-sized enterprises may look for funds, technology, markets, talents, and partners through various domestic and international information resources, to establish international relationship that can be established only by large companies in the era of industrial economy, to develop domestic and international markets that can be developed only by large companies through mass production in the era of industrial economy, and to carry out technology transformation that can be carried out only by large companies with their technical force. Therefore, knowledge economy will inevitably provide new power for international development of small & medium-sized enterprises, and make them become key supporting force for a country's economic growth.On the other hand, small & medium-sized enterprises also play a critical role in national economy. Small & medium-sized enterprises are a key supporting force for sustainable and stable growth of national economy. Small & medium-sized enterprises are the main force to promote economic system reform. They are the fresh force to absorb employment and pioneers, practicers of independent innovations. Therefore, it is also one of strategic measures of enriching people's life and prospering China, to quicken development of small & medium-sized enterprises, and quicken development of non-governmental economy. What is more, the quickening of internationalization steps of small & medium-sized enterprises may improve the ability of our country's international competition because small & medium-sized enterprises with access to international market may blaze a broad trail for solving employment of our country's labors; may learn advanced technology and management from it, increase enterprise quality and competition, and accelerate our country's technical progress; may combine our country's labor and world resources, thus use international resources; and earn large amount of foreign currencies for our country. Therefore, to encourage small & medium-sized enterprises to know, understand, and develop international market, and participate in international competition, it is of more practical significance for enterprises to improve their productive efficiency, technical level, management level, and increase our country's internationalization degree, increase the overall competition of the enterprises, and thus increase our country's international competition.Therefore, it is of quite significant and eminent practical significance to investigate internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, under the megatrend of economic globalization, and the background of arrival of knowledge economy, and the situation of our country's access to WTO, and the favorable macroenviroment for increasing development of small & medium-sized enterprises.Main Content of the PaperProceeding from reality, and taking as breakthrough point the interactive relationship between economic globalization, and internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, the preface of the paper demonstrates through investigation that internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises is an irreversible trend, and a realized outwardness. The preface also discusses the significant theoretical value and practical significance of writing this paper.The second chapter of the paper has discussed the definitions of concepts and carding of theory. The chapter gives a detailed introduction to conception and theory for internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, including: the concept of small & medium-sized enterprises, the concept of internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, as well as significant enlightenment of such theoretical knowledge on our country's small & medium-sized enterprises.The third chapter of the paper gives a qualitative and quantitative description for situation of the investigated problem, investigates historical evolution for development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises, motive for internationalized development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises, significance for internationalized development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises, situation and features for internationalized development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises, as well as main obstacles being encountered during internationalized development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises.The fourth chapter of the paper analyzes successful experience for internationalization of foreign small & medium-sized enterprises from the broad vision. It investigates dynamically development history of worldwide multinational corporations, and also investigates current situation for internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, taking USA, European Union, and Japan for example, and policies and measures adopted by various countries to promote internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises. Meanwhile, the paper also analyzes enlightenment of such successful experience for our country.The fifth chapter of the paper analyzes factors impacting internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, as well as limiting international competition of small & medium-sized enterprises. Starting from the concept of international competition, the paper analyzes factors for international competition of small & medium-sized enterprises, establishes the target system for evaluation of enterprises'international competition, and then analyzes factors limiting international competition of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises.From the above analysis and discussion, we find that, although our country's small & medium-sized enterprises have made great achievements for internationalization, they still have many problems, such as those of financing, technical innovation, informatization as well as internationalization and localization, etc. in internationalizing development. Therefore, the sixth chapter of the paper investigates those problems in internalized development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises, analyzes situation and problems in localization, informatization, financing, as well as technical innovation in internationalized development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises, and tries to proposes some pertinent suggestions.On the basis of a comprehensive discussion on internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, the seventh chapter of the paper investigates patterns for further internalized development of small & medium-sized enterprises, and gives selective analysis on collective development pattern, technological-union development pattern, as well as strategic union development between small & medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises.Finally, the eighth chapter of the paper proposes relevant strategies and measures for internationalized development of small & medium-sized enterprises.Main Viewpoints of the Paper1. Internationalized operation is the megatrend for development of our country's small & medium-sized enterprises. With quickening steps of economic globalization, with arrival of knowledge economy, with our country's access to WTO, and with increasing deepening of international openness, globalized development is an inevitable path for growth and expansion of small & medium-sized enterprises, and will bring forward new opportunities for further expansion of small & medium-sized enterprises.2. Small & medium-sized enterprises have advantages to conduct internationalized operation. Small & medium-sized enterprises have advantages in property right, innovation, and cost, etc., which will facilitate those enterprises to develop international market, and conduct international operation.3. Although our country's small & medium-sized enterprises have achieved good development, internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises still maintains at low level, with eminent problems of low cooperation degree, poor development ability, and lagging management level, etc.4. Collective development of small & medium-sized enterprises, technological union of small & medium-sized enterprises, and strategic union of small & medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises, are effective patterns to promote internationalizing development of small & medium-sized enterprises, and may further help small & medium-sized enterprises to enter international market.Main Viewpoints of the Paper1. The paper gives an exploratory investigation of the investigated topic in a big open environment, in the megatrend of economic globalization, in the big environment of the era of knowledge economy, in the era background of our country's opening and reform, especially our access to WTO, in the big opportunity of our country taking as strategic measures of enriching people's life and prospering our country to quicken development of small & medium-sized enterprises, as well as non-governmental economy. The paper is of certain innovation significance in its topic selection.2. With a new writing skill, and proceeding from reality and taking as breakthrough point the interactive relationship between economic globalization, and internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, the paper demonstrates through investigation that internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises is an irreversible trend, and a realized outwardness, and explains actual eminence and significance for internalized development of small & medium-sized enterprises. Then, the paper systematically investigates internationalized development of small & medium-sized enterprises, from tracing back to theory origin of internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises. 3. The paper tries to apply informatization in international operation of small & medium-sized enterprises, and to seek ideas of modern international operation. Information technology and information industry provides new drive for internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises through development. Computer and Internet also change conventional pattern of internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises through popularization, and promote further development of internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises. Research in this aspect is rarely seen in pre-existing literatures. It also provides a new visual angle for analysis on internalized development of small & medium-sized enterprises.4. Through strength analysis on internalized development of small & medium-sized enterprises, the paper tries to propose some innovative viewpoints. The paper lays stress on that small & medium-sized enterprises have advantages of clear property rights compared with large state-owned enterprises, and also on the"non-monopolistic market"environment for adequate competition existing between small & medium-sized enterprises, which forces small & medium-sized enterprises to strive for their survival and development, and is the source to make small & medium-sized enterprises full of vigor.5. With regard to research on mutual relationship between"inward internationalization"and"outward internationalization"of enterprises, the paper lays stress on that, the mode, rate, and scale of"inward internationalization"will impact the mode and development rate of"outward internationalization", and suggests that,"only when a country has attraction to foreign funds, then its outward foreign direct investment may develop". Such explanation, with some innovative significance, unveils interacting relationship between the two internalizations, and also complies with historical process of China's small & medium-sized enterprises going to the world.6. The paper gives accurate interpretation for some basic concepts, and meanwhile, endows such concepts with some creativity. In interpretation for the concept of"Enterprises'internationalization, the paper gives introduction and evaluation to 5 relevant definitions of domestic and foreign authors, and also defines the concepts of"internationalized enterprises","multinational corporations", and"multinational operation", etc., as well as the differences between them.7. With respect to research methods, the paper strives to exhibit full view on the investigated problem dimensionally form multiple angles and multiple aspects, through combination of history and logics, of dynamic research and static analysis, of qualitative research and quantitative mode design, and of China's actual conditions and foreign successful experiences.Limitations of the PaperDue to data deficiency of development of small & medium-sized enterprises, especially of internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises, as well as due to poor continuity and comparability of data, the paper explains overall situations in quantitative analysis only on the basis of the investigation on some typical enterprises. To some extent, this may result in deficiency of allsidedness and representativeness for problem analysis and research. Moreover, there is no consistent concept of international competition, especially international competition of enterprise, which has many different definitions. Thus it lacks theoretical support in establishment of international competition target system of small & medium-sized enterprises, and the paper lacks positive analysis on international competition of small & medium-sized enterprises. Meanwhile, as the author lacks long-term work experience on the first line of enterprises------lacking in theory and practice, thus the paper is hard to avoid shortcomings such as, in a way the inability to provide accurate definition, to make profound analysis, and point out some key points, during investigation on internationalization of small & medium-sized enterprises.
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