With the deepening of global economic integration process, the survival and\ndevelopment of enterprises is facing a severe test. An excellent international\nentrepreneur is the personification of the enterprise, undertaking the mission\nof making corporate development strategy, who can lead the enterprise to expand,\ninnovate and achieve continuously in the multinational operation. In\norder to study the abilities and qualities of excellent international entrepreneurs,\nwe conducted depth interviews with five professors from business\nschool of universities, three industry experts, seven international entrepreneurs\nand eleven subordinates from several Chinese large multinational enterprises,\nreceiving a large amount of the first and second-hand data. Then, we\nuse grounded theory to process, match, classify and extract data by means of\nopen coding, axial coding and selective coding, building a competency model\nof international entrepreneurs, including three main categories and seventeen\nsub-categories. The first main category is Knowledge, an objective evaluation,\nincluding three sub-categories, such as managerial professional knowledge,\nlanguage proficiency and the knowledge of international business. The second\nmain category is Ability, including eight sub-categories, such as the managerial\ncompetencies of international enterprises, cognitive ability of international\nmarket, the ability of international trade, the ability to adapt to the dynamic\nenvironment, the ability to integrate domestic and foreign resources, the ability\nto overcome crisis and risks, relationship ability with society and government\nand learning ability. The third main category is Personality, including\nsix sub-categories, such as autonomy, innovation, change, advance cognition\nand action, competition enthusiasm and the spirit of adventure.
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