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Entrepreneurial and market-oriented activities, financial capital, environment turbulence, and export performance in an emerging economy

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posted on 2016-06-30, 13:35 authored by Nathaniel Boso, Pejvak Oghazi, John Cadogan, Victoria StoryVictoria Story
This study examines the impact of the simultaneous implementation of entrepreneurial and market-oriented export activities on export success and whether this relationship depends on levels of financial capital and market environment turbulence. The findings from a study of 164 Ghanaian exporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) indicate that high levels of both entrepreneurial and market orientation generate better export performance. The relationship is stronger when firms have greater financial capital and operate in more turbulent export market environments. These results extend existing knowledge of how SMEs can improve export performance by seeking fit between firm-specific capabilities and external environment conditions.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Journal of Small Business Strategy

Volume

26

Issue

1

Pages

1 - 24

Citation

BOSO, N. ...et al., 2016. Entrepreneurial and market-oriented activities, financial capital, environment turbulence, and export performance in an emerging economy. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 26(1), pp. 1-24.

Publisher

© Middle Tennessee State University

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-03-31

Publication date

2016

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Journal of Small Business Strategy and the definitive published version is available at http://www.jsbs.org/

ISSN

1081-8510

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Language

  • en