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The Effects of Strategic Leaders’ Implicit Need for Achievement and Implicit Risk Taking Propensity on International Venturing Intention(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2013年02期
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Title:
The Effects of Strategic Leaders’ Implicit Need for Achievement and Implicit Risk Taking Propensity on International Venturing Intention
Author(s):
YIN Jun PEI Xue-cheng LI Dong-xin
Keywords:
implicit need for achievement implicit risk taking propensity firm’s international venturing intention
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Abstract:
There is a close relationship between strategic leaders’ implicit characteristics and their companies’ internationalization. Based on the upper echelons theory, we argue that a company’s international venturing intention can predict the characteristics of its leader. Through interviewing 50 sampled strategic leaders in Chinese privately-owned firms, we conduct a content analysis of the relationship among such factors as implicit need for achievement, implicit risk taking propensity and the firm’s international venturing intention. Our result shows that strategic leaders’ implicit need for achievement and implicit risk taking propensity are positively related to their firms’ internationalization.

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