The effects of the international entrepreneurship to the export performance of the business: The sample of Manisa Organized Industrial zone

In recent years, the rapid development of the communication Technologies, the World trade which is developing and becoming easy with globalization, have been pushing the firms to the international trade. The entrepreneurship concept emerges from this point of view. The entrepreneurship tendencies of the firms are not only cover their operating business in foreign market but to discover and evaluate all kinds of cross-border opportunities as well. In this context, in our study, it is focused on the relationship between international entrepreneurship and export performance. When we look at the literature, there are a few studies that examine the relationship between international entrepreneurship and export performance. For this reason, is has been given importance for the examining of the subject. The research was applied above the small-scale and large-scale businesses which are active along the Manisa Organized Industrial Zone. The goal of the research is the researching the effects of the international entrepreneurship activities to the export market performance. In this context, the research has carried out above the 120 people who give clear answer to the 200 questionnaire and who work in the departments of the foreign trade of the firms. On the result of the questionnaire, it is analyzed that whether the data set available for the factor analysis or nor and 8 factor are obtained. However, the 8th Factor couldn't be created because of containing 2 variance. The factors which are obtained: international entrepreneurial orientation, international learning orientation, international motivation, international market orientation, the orientation of cooperation with competitors, the orientation of cooperation with non-competing and export market performance. After that, one-way variance analysis and correlation analysis are applied to the data set. On the result of the research, it is seen that there is a relationship between export market performance and sub-dimension of international entrepreneurship in different ways and strengths. Key words: International Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Orientation, Export Performance, Access To The Market, Market Orientation, Proactivity, Innovation