The Effect of Export Assistance Program Usage on Export Performance: A Contingency Explanation

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esra F. Gençtürk ◽  
Masaaki Kotabe
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Export Promotion ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Export Marketing ◽  
Export Assistance

On the basis of a synthesis of prior research, the authors develop a model, which integrates export marketing involvement and the use of government export promotion assistance programs as critical variables affecting export performance, and subject it to empirical evaluation. In this context, the authors also investigate organizational and managerial differences among the firms involved in export marketing to ascertain the robustness of and replicate the observed differences in firms’ export marketing involvement behavior. The results indicate that export marketing involvement of firms and firms’ usage of government export assistance programs are important export success factors. However, the relevance of export assistance programs and the role they play vary depending on the dimension of export performance being considered.

scholarly journals STUDI KASUS INTERVENSI PEMERINTAH BAGI USAHA MIKRO, KECIL, DAN MENENGAH DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-287
Author(s):  
Marwanto Harjowiryono ◽  
Windraty Ariane Siallagan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on MSMEs and how Government intervention affects their capacity to survive. Through a survey of 368 respondents, namely debtors/beneficiaries, aid distributors, policymakers, and supervisors, this case study finds that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in business delays. The finding means that the government assistance schemes are the key to business continuity for MSMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help from the Government, the business actors in the sample of this study can maintain their business. Although some MSMEs reduced the number of workers employed, some MSMEs still survived, even increased their workers and business turnover. While the research identifies key success factors of Government programs, there are also some challenges in their implementation. This study recommends that the Government continues giving assistance programs for MSMEs. In addition, the Government should relax requirements while focusing on new beneficiaries. Building an integrated MSME database is also necessary, and in the future, the Government must integrate the assistance program with financial literacy and innovation programs. The policy implication of this research is that the future programs of government poverty alleviation need to focus on MSMEs.

scholarly journals Sustaining Small Exporters’ Performance: Capturing Heterogeneous Effects of Government Export Assistance Programs on Global Value Chain Informedness

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong Hugh Han ◽  
Hyun-Yong Park
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Export Assistance

The previous literature extensively highlighted the importance of export promotion programs (EPPs) provided by governments to enhance small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) export performance. However, the literature still (1) lacks sufficient depth in analysing the way different types of EPPs sustain SME export performance and (2) suffers from the absence of an EPP portfolio that guides an efficient resource allocation for different EPP types. To fill these gaps, our study (1) developed a research model that integrates three different types of EPPs and (2) tested their indirect impacts on sustainable export performance via global value chain informedness, which is a largely ignored but indispensable capability in exporting. Using a partial least-squares equation model (PLS SEM) method to analyze 156 samples collected from 1st of October to 31st of December of 2018 by accessing Korean SMEs’ export managers, our model addresses the different roles of EPP types and also the part of the SME value chain informedness that acts as a critical enabler for sustaining export performance. Furthermore, by complementing the PLS SEM with an importance and performance analysis matrix (IPA matrix), we provide an action plan that guides an appropriate resource allocation to different types of EPPs. In theory, we provide an explanation for how different EPPs work for SMEs via the value chain informedness of SMEs for the export performance. We further capture such EPPs operating over the longer term, with a lasting export performance of SMEs so as to supply a sounder theoretical rationale for the EPP provision. The action plan delivers strategic implications for policy makers dealing with export-assistance programs operations. With the importance of global network involvement and communication with foreign partners, the incorporation of value chain informedness uncovers the necessity of interfirm network-focused informedness in international business literature.

State Export Promotion and Firm-level Employment

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-563
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Cassey ◽  
Spencer Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Export Promotion ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Us States ◽  
Export Assistance ◽  
Employment Data

Most US states have export promotion programs, but it is unknown if these programs create long-term employment, which is often the policy’s stated goal. We merge administrative export promotion and employment data from Washington State to test the effect of firm-level export promotion on firm-level employment using the differences-in-differences estimator. We believe we are the first to have US state data at this level of detail. We find firm participation in an export assistance program increases firm-level employment fleetingly, but not in subsequent periods. Thus, we do not find a statistically significant impact to long-term employment from program participation.

Export marketing assistance and early internationalizing firm performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anisur R. Faroque ◽  
Yoshi Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
Experiential Marketing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Export Marketing ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Export Assistance ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contingent relationship between government marketing assistance for export and the performance of early internationalizing firms in a developing country’s low-tech industry. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ hierarchical multiple regression based on the data obtained from Bangladesh, a south Asian developing country and a leading exporter of apparel products worldwide. The authors used a sample of 224 early internationalizing apparel firms to test the hypotheses. Findings – Research describes the relationship between export assistance and performance as direct. Recently, some researchers have suggested moderators between them. The authors argue that the relationship between the two is contingent on the level of export commitment. The authors find that neither informational nor experiential marketing assistance is directly related to export performance. The relationship between informational assistance and export performance is significantly, but (unexpectedly) negatively, moderated by export commitment. The effect of experiential assistance is positively, but only marginally, moderated by export commitment. Originality/value – Contrary to researchers’ overarching focus on a direct relationship, the authors investigate the moderation on the relationship between export informational and experiential marketing assistance, and early internationalizing firms’ performance in a developing country’s low-tech industry setting. The authors use export commitment as the moderator; it is one of the most important internal determinants of export performance and extremely relevant in early internationalizing firms. The differential impact of informational and experiential assistance provides additional insights.

Increasing the Effectiveness of Export Assistance Programs

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 173-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Silverman ◽  
Richard M. Castaldi ◽  
Sanjit Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Export Assistance
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