Abstract
Drawing on international entrepreneurship literature and emerging study of big data analytics, this study investigates how entrepreneurial orientation and big data analytics implementation promotes the speed of internationalization. By analyzing panel multi-industry data collected US firms, we expect that entrepreneurial orientation has a significant influence on the speed of internationalization, and big data analytics implementation positively mediates such causal relationship. In addition, based on network theory, we propose that alliance network centrality positively moderates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and speed of internationalization as well as the the relationship between big data analytics implementation speed of internationalization.