Krammer, MSS orcid.org/0000-0002-5773-9514, Strange, R and Lashitew, A (2018) The export performance of emerging economy firms: The influence of firm capabilities and institutional environments. International Business Review, 27 (1). pp. 218-230. ISSN 0969-5931
Abstract
We advance a two-stage theoretical model which contends that the export performance of emerging economy firms (EEFs) will depend both upon their firm-specific capabilities and their home institutional environments. Specifically, we argue that EEFs will be more likely to export when facing more uncertainty at home from greater political instability, substantial informal competition, and high corruption. Furthermore, we hypothesize that firms’ export intensities will be contingent upon specialized internal capabilities such as a skilled workforce, top managerial experience, and access to external technologies. We test these hypotheses using a dataset of more than 16,000 firms from the four BRIC economies (i.e., Brazil, Russia, China and India). Our results confirm that political instability and informal competition have robust effects on the export propensity of EEFs, whilst export intensity is contingent upon the availability of skilled workers and access to external technologies via licensing.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Business Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Emerging economy firms; Export performance; Firm capabilities; Institutions; Heckman selection |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2017 12:23 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2019 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.07.003 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118880 |
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