Empirical Research Enterprise Network Structural Characteristics On The Performance Impact Of The Internationalization Of The Firm

With the evolving global economic integration, Domestic enterprises begin to go abroad actively through various forms of international strategy to improve the international competitiveness. International economic situation complexity is increasing, companies will face a greater uncertainty risk of business environment. Especially, economic relation between countries is increasingly close, companies are involved in a work-division, unified production, unified services global network gradually. However, the network of international relations based on this theory of internationalization has not yet formed a complete and systematic theoretical system, therefore, research in this area shows more practical significance.Based on the above, This article contains the following:(1)The paper reviewed the theory of enterprise networks, enterprise resource acquisition theory and international theory, drawing on existing research results and models, organized and summarized a more holistic measure of structure of enterprise network. (2)Based on the logical relationship between the structure of enterprise network and international performance., introducing international resource acquisition as an intermediate variable, the paper established a multi-factors model that structure of enterprise network, resources acquisition affect the performance of enterprise internationalization. (3)Through empirical analysis of survey data, defined the mechanisms of affect business network structure on the performance of enterprise internationalization to fill gaps in the theory, and guided the strategic choice of enterprise internationalization theoretically, and promote the process of internationalization.This paper applies SPSS 13.0 to analy the data obtained through questionnaires, and draws the following conclusions:(1)The structure of enterprise network and international resources acquisition demonstrated a significant impact on international performance.Relationship strength and quality have a significantly positive affect on the internationalization performance, which is also consistent with the hypothesises in this article. But the positive effect of the two dimensions—the network heterogeneity and the structure centrality, did not pass the test of significance. This may be due to the level of internationalization in China which is still in its early stages, and International diversification has not been achieved on a wide range, the demand of heterogeneous resources has not reached a certain level.In addition, China's enterprises are still in the lower end of global value chains in import and export trade, overseas local production, etc.. therefore the location in the network of international relations need to further increase, which led to the positive role of structural centrality on international performance did not pass the test of significance. (2)Empirical test also obtained that resources acquisition play an important intermediary role between the enterprise network structure and performance of enterprise internationalization. The structure of enterprise network plays a significantly positive role on the international performance just through the "link"—resources acquisition, which is the internal mechanism of the impact on international performance. (3)Moreover, through empirical analysis, this paper also found that firm size and industry also show significant effect on international performance.