Research on the Impact Mechanism of Entrepreneur's Knowledge, Experience and Network on SMEs' Internationalization

Many scholars researched the small and medium sized enterprises' internationalization from the views of entrepreneurship and social capital. These theories can partly explain the new international phenomena. But it lacks the systematic logic because of the single theory view and there's not enough attention being paid to the mechanism. Based on the literature review, this paper argues that the entrepreneur's knowledge, experience and network firstly stimulate entrepreneur's motivation and then bring the internationalization of the SMEs. The analysis results show that entrepreneur's knowledge, experience and network have the key impact on entrepreneur's motivation of internationalization. Knowledge also influences the speed of internationalization. Entrepreneur's network can help the SMEs get the opportunities and necessary resources of internationalization, which could accelerate the enterprises' internationalization.