| Title | The belt and road initiative, cultural friction and ethnicity: Their effects on the export performance of SMEs in China |
| Author | |
| Corresponding Author | Liu, Bin |
| Publication Years | 2019-06
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| ISSN | 1090-9516
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| EISSN | 1878-5573
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| Volume | 54Issue:4Pages:350-359 |
| Abstract | China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has provided Chinese firms with significant incentives to speed up the pace of internationalization. Yet very little international business (IB) research has been found to empirically examine such policy effects. This study explores this important issue using Chinese firms of different ethnicities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China. We propose that the BRI has a positive formal institutional effect on the export performance of XUAR firms that target the "Belt" countries. Both cultural friction and ethnicity serve as the unique cultural contingencies that moderate the relationship between the BRI and export performance. More specifically, the cultural friction that results from the process of internationalization will negatively affect the export performance prompted by the BRI. The Uygur-owned firms will benefit more from the BRI due to their cultural similarity. Overall, the study takes the lead in investigating both internal conditions and external environments that promote and inhibit the internationalization process of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the XUAR that are geographically close to the "Belt" countries. The findings help enrich the understanding of the dual "push" and "drag" effects on the outcomes of SMEs' international activities due to the government-led initiatives and the understanding of micro-foundation toward internationalization from an ethnicity perspective. |
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| Language | English
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| SUSTech Authorship | Others
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| Funding Project | Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (HKUST)[16505817]
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| WOS Research Area | Business & Economics
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| WOS Subject | Business
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| WOS Accession No | WOS:000472689900010
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| ESI Research Field | ECONOMICS BUSINESS
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| Data Source | Web of Science
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Cited Times [WOS]:93
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| Document Type | Journal Article |
| Identifier | http://kc.sustech.edu.cn/handle/2SGJ60CL/25758 |
| Department | School of Business 商学院_信息系统与管理工程系 |
| Affiliation | 1.Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Management, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Management, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 3.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Econ & Business Adm, Shenzhen, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 |
Li, Jiatao,Liu, Bin,Qian, Gongming. The belt and road initiative, cultural friction and ethnicity: Their effects on the export performance of SMEs in China[J]. JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS,2019,54(4):350-359.
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| APA |
Li, Jiatao,Liu, Bin,&Qian, Gongming.(2019).The belt and road initiative, cultural friction and ethnicity: Their effects on the export performance of SMEs in China.JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS,54(4),350-359.
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| MLA |
Li, Jiatao,et al."The belt and road initiative, cultural friction and ethnicity: Their effects on the export performance of SMEs in China".JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS 54.4(2019):350-359.
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