Knowledge is an endless resource as well as the key source of competitive advantage for enterprises. In the era of globalization with knowledge economy and network economy, the internationalization growth of enterprises is facing new challenges. Under such situations, an enterprise has to stress on the resource integration of internal network and reduce international business risks by developing the external network relationship to enhance the internationalization performance. With on-site questionnaire distribution and collection, enterprises with export-oriented manufacturing in Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang areas are distributed 400 copies of questionnaire in this study. Total 302 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 75.5%. The research results are summarized as below. 1. Dual network embeddedness presents significantly positive effects on organizational learning. 2. Dual network embeddedness shows remarkably positive effects on internationalization performance. 3. Organizational learning reveals notably positive effects on internationalization performance. It is expected to apply the research results to the internationalization growth or transnational business development of enterprises, to enhance the strategic performance and financial performance, and to be the reference for research on network embeddedness and organizational learning. Keywords: dual embeddedness of networks, explorative learning, exploitative learning, internationalization performance RESEARCH BACKGROUND Knowledge economy and network economy have become the distinctive features in the era of globalization. A lot more enterprises attempt to take international markets as the places for optimizing resource allocation and proceeding product competition in order to acquire larger development space and the motive for continuous development. The process of an enterprise establishing and developing network relationship in the international market and adjusting the network location is an internationalization process. Mattsson (1985) regarded 3 stages to complete the process, including 1.to develop the relationship among enterprises in the foreign market relationship
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