Your starting point is quite generic, but if you need industry-led research examples to start thinking about this research question, then the ESOMAR website will provide you with an abundance of research explicating how economic/power relation networks can impact on international companies and their internationalisation. You can find ESOMAR by clicking on the link:  https://www.esomar.org/

You could start exploring the references (and try to find key authors) within the next sources:

"The internationalization of the Chinese state" (RubenGonzalez-Vicente)

"Home country institutional environments and foreign expansion of emerging market firms" (Jie Wu and Xiaoyun Chen)

"What drives the internationalization of Chinese SMEs? The joint effects of international entrepreneurship characteristics, network ties, and firm ownership" (Xiao Zhang et al.).

"The impact of domestic diversification and top management teams on the international diversification of Chinese firms" (Jiangyong Lu et al.)

"Highly skilled returnees and the internationalization of EMNEs: Firm level evidence from China" (Xialoan Fu et al.)