- Title
- Motives for the Internationalization of Private Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Guangdong China
- Creator
- Kwan, Wong
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
- Description
- Chinese private small and medium-sized enterprises (PSMEs) have become one of the important drivers of the Chinese economy. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the motives for the internationalization of PSMEs in Guangdong China to understand and explain why and how these PSMEs were internationalized to adapt to change in the current political and economic environments after more than 20 years of reform in China especially after China entered the WTO. The literatures concerning transition economies, the history of evolution of Chinese private economy, China’s socialist market-oriented economy, and theories of international business, internationalization and entrepreneurship are reviewed to describe a theoretical framework of the motives for internationalization of SMEs. The literature review lays a foundation for understanding and explaining how the motives for internationalization were created and what influenced the decision-making of the leaders of SMEs in terms of strategy and entry mode in the process of internationalization. Based on this foundation, the research questions were developed and around these questions a qualitative research methodology was adopted. Four interviews with CEOs of the selected companies by judgment sampling were conducted to collect data. The conclusion of the research is based on the findings from the interviews in the context of the extant theories of internationalization. The key contribution of this thesis is that through exploring the motives of Guangdong PSMEs to internationalize, it will narrow the identified gaps and will arouse the interest of the academic and business researchers to further study Chinese PSMEs and to build and enrich the theories of internationalization in the context of China. This thesis also attempted to build a practical business model indicating how the motives influenced and reinforced the action of internationalization of Guangdong PSMEs in managing organizational change to adapt to the ever changing business environment under the current political and economic system of China. It is also suggested that the findings of the thesis assist the foreign managers to understand the behavior of the Chinese counterparties in process of internationalization.
- Subject
- internationalization; motives; socialist market-oriented economy; private small and medium-sized enterprises
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/30699
- Identifier
- uon:2694
- Rights
- Copyright 2006 Wong Kwan
- Language
- eng
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