Internationalization of Firms from Developing Economies: A Brief Review in Chinese Perspective

Abstract

Last two decades witness the tremendous growth in China. Given the outstanding growth in the economy; Chinese firms invest considerable amount of capital in the foreign countries. The quest of Chinese business is continuously growing at international level. In this study we try to find the determinants of Chinese firms going abroad. After reviewing bunch of literature we found that Chinese multinational corporations (MNCs) growing rapidly by investing in foreign countries. Our assessments of the great number of research on Chinese firms found that international experience, government incentives, ownership structure are the major determinants that trigger the worldwide expansion of Chinese firms.