The comparatively fresh emergence of relationship marketing paradigm in the field of marketing management highlights the growing need to manage, develop and evaluate relationships amongst the buyers and suppliers. In international business context, the same holds good for relationship quality...

We argue that technical efficiency, when R&D stock is considered as a crucial resource, reflects the effectiveness of the underlying mechanism of transforming competencies into capabilities. We argue that (i) the role of innovation patterns is a premise in determining firms productive...

This paper studies exporting and innovative firms investment sensitivity to days receivable outstanding, days payable outstanding, and cash flow which are found to be financial factors determining financing constraints. We also advance and test the idea that export intensity and innovation...

Exporte gelten als Wachstumsmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft und werden von der Wirtschaftspolitik auf vielfältige Weise gefördert. Doch führt die Förderung der Aufnahme von Handelsbeziehungen mit dem Ausland durch Betriebe, die bislang nicht exportierten, wirklich zu einem Wachstum der...

The ongoing debate of the literature on learning-by-exporting is whether the conspicuously stellar performance of exporters relative to non-exporters can be, at least partially, attributed to the horizonwidening interaction with foreign consumers and learning of cost-efficient and quality...

This paper uses a novel manufacturing firm-level survey data in 19 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to explore the linkages among a number of export-market destinations (e.g., China, India, other Asia, EU, US, MENA, SSA excluding South Africa, and South Africa) and performance. The paper also...

This research assesses a model which links the entrepreneurial orientation of a firm (innovativeness, risk-taking and proactiveness) to its export performance. The model incorporates environmental variables (dynamism, hostility and heterogeneity) and internal variables (age, size and structure)...

A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics of exporting plants and firms to non-exporters. Employment, shipments, wages, productivity and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This paper asks whether good firms become...