Purpose – This paper aims to provide an explanation for foreign small- and-medium-sized enterprise' (SMEs) internationalization results in China based on human and social capital interactions. Design/methodology/approach – The results of a qualitative comparative case study drawing on...

This paper examines how entrepreneurs' perceptions of a foreign country prior to internationalization are affected by social interactions with peers and other actors during initial approaches of that country and what consequences do these evolving perceptions have upon internationalization...

Alors que la littérature, chinoise comme occidentale, continue de décrire le management chinois selon des pratiques supposément empruntées à des traditions ancestrales et à la morale confucéenne, un nombre croissant de managers et d’observateurs étrangers s’étonnent au contraire de...

Dwelling on the meteoric rise of the Chinese economy, countless books intend to describe and analyze the reasons for such growth. A specific, but increasingly popular, trend has focused on the hypothetical renaissance of an “ancient Chinese management thought” (中国古代经济管理思想...

Extant literature has proposed various and often divergent perspectives on international entrepreneurs' embeddedness and mindsets, notably opposing “embedded” domestic entrepreneurs with a “local” mindset to “global” entrepreneurs united by the “global mindset” of an emerging...

Les structures (publiques, para-publiques et privées) destinées à accompagner l'entrepreneur au delà des frontières nationales revêtent différentes natures, promeuvent différentes actions destinées notamment à favoriser l'insertion, le passage de l'entrepreneur dans un milieu ou champ...

Face au contexte fortement concurrentiel, les entreprises se doivent d’innover. Pour ce faire, elles développent une Dynamique d’Innovation Intrapreneuriale, concept favorisant la détection d’opportunités d’affaires par les salariés. Peu de recherches se sont intéressées à la mise...

Recent history has not favoured China with a stable legal and regulatory environment. Instead, personal connections – guanxi – enabled individuals and their networks access to support and resources. As the clarity of laws improves, functioning markets established and mechanisms for...