“天生的国际企业”是国际化阶段理论无法解释的中小企业国际化特殊现象,国内外学者对其倍加关注。笔者对学者们关于“天生的国际企业”的定义、特征、成因方面的研究结果进行梳理、归纳,并指出中国的中小企业应当抓住经济全球化这一历史机遇,加速国际化步伐。 “Natural international enterprise ” is a special phenomenon of internationalization of SMEs that can not be explained by the theory of internationalization phase, and domestic and foreign scholars pay more attention to it. The author sorts out and summarizes the scholars’ findings on the definition, characteristics and causes of “innate international enterprise ” and points out that SMEs in China should seize the historic opportunity of economic globalization and accelerate the pace of internationalization.