The incumbent State-owned Enterprises (SOE) are dominant players in the home markets. New entrants’ arrival challenges the SOEs’ market dominance while the technology discontinuity challenges the technical leadership by obsoleting the existing technology. This study focuses on the effect of these competitive pressures on the internationalization intent of the Indian SOEs. The incumbent firms develop a knowledge network in technical and market aspects by working with the partners, the suppliers and the buyers. The study also focuses on the moderating effect of the knowledge networks. This study uses structured equation modelling using the partial least squares technique as the analytical technique. The results confirm the positive effect of technological discontinuity on the internationalization intent. In contrast, new entrants had no such effect. The study also confirms the positive moderating influence of the knowledge network on the effect of technological discontinuity on the internationalization intent.

现有的国有企业 (SOE) 在国内市场占据主导地位。新进入者的到来挑战了国有企业的市场主导地位，而技术不连续性通过淘汰现有技术挑战了技术领先地位。本研究侧重于这些竞争压力对印度国有企业国际化意图的影响。现有公司通过与合作伙伴、供应商和买家合作，在技术和市场方面建立了一个知识网络。该研究还侧重于知识网络的调节作用。本研究使用使用偏最小二乘法作为分析技术的结构化方程建模。结果证实了技术不连续性对国际化意图的积极影响。相比之下，新进入者没有这种影响。