Integrating recent theories of entrepreneurship with new institutional economics, we develop a multilevel model to deepen our knowledge of how micro-level entrepreneurs’ personality and motivational antecedents interact with macro-level home-country institutions in determining internationalization by early-stage entrepreneurial firms. Data were collected from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Adult Population Survey, GEM National Expert Survey, and the World Economic Outlook Database for the year of 2014. The results show that the personality trait of entrepreneurial self-efficacy contributes positively to the degree of internationalization via mobilizing opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship and that home-country formal institutions strengthen the above relationship of such young entrepreneurial firms.

将最新的企业家精神理论与新制度经济学相结合，我们开发了一个多层次模型，以加深我们对微型企业家的人格和动机先驱如何与宏观母国机构相互作用的知识，从而确定早期创业公司的国际化。数据收集自2014年全球创业监测成年人口调查，GEM国家专家调查和世界经济展望数据库。结果表明，企业家自我效能感的人格特质通过动员机会对国际化程度做出了积极贡献积极进取的企业家精神以及祖国的正规机构加强了这类年轻企业家公司的上述关系。