期刊
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
卷 128, 期 -, 页码 486-498出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.02.026
关键词
SMEs; Exporting; Innovation; Learning-by-exporting; Learning-to-export
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资金
- Hellenic Research Funding Institute (HFRI) under the 1st Call for HFRI research projects [HFRI-FM17-0320]
- Estonian Research Council [PRG791]
The study found that SMEs choose their export status through learning how to export and learning by exporting, and innovation plays a key role in both export capability and exporting. Product innovation has a negative impact on productivity in the short term. Ambition for growth and planned future innovation are key determinants of export capability and exporting.
We examine the strategic (pre-) exporting choices of UK micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their links to productivity. This involves considering not only exporters and non-exporters, but also an intermediate category of export-capable firms. Such categorisations help to identify learning effects occurring in the pre- and post-export phases. Indeed, we find evidence of both learning-to-export and learning-by-exporting effects among SMEs, and that firms consciously select their export status based on current productivity performance. Innovation plays a key role, and its effect does not occur exclusively in the transition to exporting, but also in building up export capability. Product and process innovation have different effects on export capability and exporting, respectively. The effect of product innovation on productivity is negative at least in the short-term. Growth ambition and planned future innovation are key determinants of both export capability and exporting.
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