Nexus of Economic Liberalization Policy Domain : Export Performance of Ethiopian Privatized Manufacturing Firms

This study focuses on examines range of Ethiopian economic liberalization and its contribution to privatized manufacturing firms in relation to export performance. To achieve these objectives, both primary and secondary data used. Cross-sectional data collected from 114 fully privatized manufacturing firms through key informant approaches. Seven scaled structured questionaries’ were use and analyzed by using Structural equation modeling (SEM). The model tells that all the predicting variables in the hypothesized model were significant at p < 0.05 and this shows that all constructs of privatization affects export performances under all competitive priority. The latent variables, law and order (P= 0.000), incentive shames (P= 0.000), trade openness (P= 0.001), significantly affect export performance. The finding shows that economic liberalization stimulates export performance under firm’s competitive priority an intervening role. The competitive priority of firms comprises cost, flexibility and quality priority. Those measures confine arouses export performance in terms of both quantitative (market share, profit) and subjective measures (export satisfaction) indicators. The extent of law and order, commitment towards financial and non-financial incentives and the overall trade openness use as liberalization indicator. In addition, evidence revealed that a more competitive priority of firms determine export performance and competitiveness in international market