Experience, age and exporting performance in UK SMEs
James H. Love; Stephen Roper; Ying Zhou · 2015 · International Business Review
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Abstract
We consider the determinants of SME exporting performance using a survey of internationally engaged UK SMEs. We first develop a model incorporating organisational and prior managerial learning effects. Our empirical analysis then allows us to identify separately the positive effects on exporting from the international experience of the firm and the negative effects of firm age. Positive exporting effects also result from grafted knowledge – acquired by the recruitment of management with prior international experience. Innovation also has positive exporting effects with more radical new-to-the-
Abstract by James H. Love; Stephen Roper; Ying Zhou, International Business Review (2015) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2015.10.001