Research On The Influence Mechanism Of Overseas Network Embedding And International Learning On Internationalization Speed

Since the 21 st century,a prominent feature of global economic development has been the rapid rise of emerging economies.During this period,emerging economies have presented new features of rapid internationalization in the process of transnational operations.However,the traditional progressive internationalization theory ignores the time dimension of the internationalization process,and thus the explanatory power of the phenomenon of rapid internationalization of enterprises in emerging economies is increasingly limited.Although the classic international business theory has touched the time dimension of the process of corporate internationalization,it is still difficult to explain the complex relationship between multi-internationalization factors and rapid internationalization activities as a whole.Therefore,focusing on the research on the impact of corporate network embedding on international learning,and exploring and utilizing the external resources of technology and information to promote international development is the focus of current research.By selecting effective samples of 211 export-oriented manufacturing enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region,this paper analyzes the inherent relationship among overseas network embeddedness,international learning and internationalization speed under the background of rapid internationalization.The research results show that overseas network embedding has a positive impact on international learning and internationalization speed.International learning has a positive impact on the speed of internationalization.International learning has aIV complete mediating effect on the relationship between overseas network relationship embedding and internationalization speed.International learning has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between the embeddedness of overseas network structures and the speed of internationalization.The findings in this paper have implications for theory.Firstly,most of the internationalization theories ignore the speed variable of the internationalization process,and most of the research focuses on enterprises in advanced economies.Therefore,it is difficult to explain the rapid internationalization of Chinese enterprises.This study regards the whole process of enterprise internationalization as including initial entry speed and post-entry speed,which helps improve the interpretation of rapid internationalization phenomenon of Chinese enterprises.Secondly,the existing research focuses on the influence of overseas network embeddedness on internationalization speed.This study found that overseas network embeddedness have the significant positive effect on internationalization speed,and this study is an active expansion and deepening of existing research.Finally,existing researches pay more attention to the direct effect of network embeddedness on internationalization speed,and ignore other variables that may be related to the relationship between network embeddedness and internationalization speed.In addition,this study also finds that both exploratory learning ability,transformative learning ability and developmental learning ability play an important media role in the process of export-oriented enterprises actively embedding overseas networks,and exploratory learning ability,transformative learning ability and developmental learning ability have more direct influence on internationalization speed.The result provides a new perspective for uncovering the internal influence mechanism between network embeddedness and internationalization speed.The findings in this paper have implications for practice.Firstly,the premise that rapid internationalization creates the “forerunner advantage” for Chinese enterprises is that enterprises must have sufficient capabilities to make up for the operational risks that “time compression diseconomies” may bring.Therefore,the internationalization expansion of Chinese enterprises should adopt a cautious attitudeto control the speed and pace of internationalization,and implement an active and sound internationalization strategy.Secondly,Chinese enterprises should pay more attention to the construction of overseas network relations in order to fully access and use international network resources.Thirdly,Chinese enterprises should pay attention to the transmission of learning ability between overseas network embeddedness and internationalization speed,should adopt an active and initiative attitude to establish an effective learning mechanism and cultivate learning ability.