scholarly journals The Role of Firm’s Location, Export-Related Resources and Capabilities in Relation to Coffee & Sesame Export Performance in Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Getie Andualem Imiru
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Rural Businesses ◽  
Organizational Planning ◽  
Beneficial Impact ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

Exporting has been one of the fastest foreign expansion strategies in the last two decades. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of an exporter's location in the development of export-related resources and capabilities, which will have an impact on the degree of export performance. The relationship between export-related resources, capabilities, and export performance are examined in this study. A total of 300 questionnaires were sent out to coffee and sesame exporters. However, only 253 surveys were used for analysis. The SmartPLS 3 software was used to analyse the data using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique. The study's findings suggest that access to location-specific resources and skills are critical antecedents for a company's ability to build export-related resources and capabilities in order to improve export performance. The geographic location of a company has a considerable and beneficial impact on human resource capability (β =0.67, p=0.001). Information capability was not significantly influenced by human resource capability ((β =0.082, P=0.259). Information capability ((β =0.656, p=0.001) is significantly influenced by organizational planning capability ((β =0.452, p=0.001). Satisfaction Export Performance ((β =0.431, p=0.01) has been significantly and positively influenced by information capability. New Product Development Capability influences strategic export performance significantly and positively ((β =0.330, p=0.001). Strategic export performance ((β =-0.035, P= 0.820) and satisfaction with export performance ((β =0.050, P= 0.625) were not affected by relationship capability. These data suggest that when it comes to exporting, rural businesses face significantly greater obstacles than those in metropolitan areas. The outcomes of this study will assist managers of remote-area businesses in developing equally appealing recruitment and reward practices in order to compete with businesses in urban areas. Furthermore, the outcomes of this study advise that export firm managers think carefully about the resources and capabilities required to improve their export performance.

Effect of location on access to finance: international evidence on the moderating role of employee training

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukhammadfoik Bakhadirov ◽  
Zakir Pashayev ◽  
Omar Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Employee Training ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rural Firms

PurposeThe paper answers the following questions: (1) Do firms located in rural areas experience greater problems in accessing financial services? (2) If this is the case, what can these firms do to improve their access to finance?Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses the pooled logistic regression and the data collected by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys during the period between 2008 and 2018 to answer the aforementioned questions.FindingsThe results of this paper show that firms headquartered in rural (urban) areas experience greater (lower) problems in accessing finance than other firms. This paper attributes these findings to higher (lower) levels of information asymmetry and lower (higher) levels of density of banking operations in rural (urban) areas. The results of this paper also show that firms headquartered in rural areas can improve their access to finance by increasing the skill levels of their employees.Originality/valueThis paper highlights the actions that rural firms can undertake to overcome the adverse impact of their geographic location.

scholarly journals Dimensions of dynamic marketing capability and export performance

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tayeenul Hoque ◽  
Mohammad Faisal Ahammad ◽  
Nikolaos Tzokas ◽  
Gillie Gabay
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Marketing Capabilities ◽  
Marketing Capability ◽  
Hybrid Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Capability

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework on the dimensions of dynamic marketing capability (DMC) and its relationship with export performance. The paper also proposes the mediating role of competitive hybrid strategy and the moderating role of environmental responsiveness in explaining the relationship between DMC and export performance. Design/methodology/approach By following the dynamic capability notion of the marketing and competitive strategy literature, this paper proposes a novel conceptualization of the DMC development process and the possible effect of DMC on attaining competitive advantage. Findings The paper postulates that a firm’s DMC can reflect complementary power when its higher-level marketing capabilities are bundled together to detect distributing channel members’ crucial needs, competitors’ action plans and satisfying market demand. As yet little is known about the main underlying dimensions of higher-level DMC construct, the paper contributes in proposing the key dimensions of DMC. Originality/value This research advances the knowledge-based view and resource-based views and evolves a solid foundation of DMC constructs comprising four higher-order marketing capabilities, namely, ambidextrous market orientation, customer relationship management capability, brand management capability and new product development capability. Thus, this paper contributes in DMC literature in explaining export performance.

scholarly journals Role of Living Conditions and Socioenvironmental Factors on Chronotype in Adolescents

Adolescents ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Prasun Haldar ◽  
Smriti Debnath ◽  
Ana Adan ◽  
Konrad S. Jankowski ◽  
Dwiptirtha Chattopadhyay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Activity Rhythm ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Liquefied Petroleum Gas ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

An individual’s chronotype, defined as the preference for rest and activity at different times of the day, is linked to several physiological and psychological outcomes. Research on environmental determinants of chronotype has focussed mostly on geographic location, whereas other socioenvironmental determinants have been neglected. We aimed to investigate the association between other previously unrecognized socioenvironmental factors and chronotypes in adolescents. We analysed data of 1916 Bengali adolescents (aged between 13–14 years, 47% girls). Chronotype was determined by the reduced morningness–eveningness questionnaire (rMEQ), and socioenvironmental factors were identified through a structured questionnaire. Associations were analysed using multinomial logistic regression models. Our findings demonstrated that living in urban areas, the presence of a smoker at home, and higher parental education were associated with a higher evening activity (eveningness), while the use of biomass cooking media (compared to liquefied petroleum gas) and assisting parents in farming were associated with higher morningness in adolescents. This is the first study to identify the association between previously unrecognized socioenvironmental factors and chronotypes delineating the interaction between environment and sleep in adolescents and might help the parents to understand the importance of a proper sleep-activity rhythm of their kids through a comprehensive understanding of their surrounding environment and other factors.

scholarly journals Investigating the path through which export market orientation influences export venture performance

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Αικατερίνη Μακρή
Keyword(s):  
Market Orientation ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Sales Force ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Marketing Capabilities ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Sales Strategy ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

In response to certain important gaps in the extant export marketing literature the present research inquiry strives to investigate the role of export sales strategy and marketing capabilities in the path through which export market orientation influences export venture performance. Previous research endeavors based on the Resource Based View theory support the existence of a joint, complimentary relationship of sales force resources and capabilities on performance. However it seems that the particular path through which export sales strategy, and its association with specific marketing capabilities and resources contribute to enhanced export performance, requires further research attention. The objective of the present research attempt is to investigate the role of export sales strategy in conjunction with certain marketing capabilities available to an export venture. Drawing on the Resource Based View theory, the present research effort considers and empirically tests the role of marketing capabilities and export sales strategy in the path through which export market orientation influences export performance. Based on a thorough review of empirical studies which consider market orientation as a firm resource, we focus on investigating a series of relationships leading from export market orientation values, norms and behavior to export venture performance. Through this attempt, we aim to address critical gaps in both market orientation and RBV literature, theoretically and empirically. The results of this empirical effort, and in concert with the existing conceptual evidence, suggest that export sales strategy should not be examined in isolation, but within a broader and more interactive context of resources and capabilities embedded within an exporting organisation. Particularly, export sales strategy is an important driver of export performance by effectively capitalizing on the resources and capabilities of the firm. Our empirical evidence reveals that effective implementation of export sale strategies contribute to enhanced export market and financial performance, and that export market orientation (firm resource) and marketing capabilities play an important role in enabling effective export sales strategy implementation in export venture markets within a competitive and turbulent environment that exists in foreign markets.

“DON VALLEY” WINE-MAKING CLUSTER AS AN ENOGASTROTOURISM DEVELOPMENT SITE: SOCIO-CULTURAL COMPONENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е.V. Pokazannik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Wine Making ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
Regional Cluster ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Development Site ◽  
Cultural Component

“Don Valley” is more than a historic or geographic location, - it is an official name of a wine-making area, proposed by Rostov Region administration for consolidation of local wine-makers under the single mega-brand. Specialized regional cluster “Don Valley” is “an association of leading scientific, educational, industrial, engineering and innovative organizations and enterprises of the Rostov region, operating in the following areas: wine-making, manufacturing of components for wineries, scientific-research and educational programmes, development of retail infrastructure, promotion of wine-tasting and gastronomic tourism, and viniculture”3. The creators of the cluster official web-site declare “Made on the Don” brand communication as their primary goal, along with promotion of wine in the region. The article reviews the specifics of Don region from a standpoint of its attractiveness as a tourist destination. The mandatory components are named that together with the enogastronomic sphere can contribute to the growth of demand for tourist routes of various content and duration. The key role of cultural and historic component in successful promotion of the Don winemaking in the tourism market is emphasized. It is noted that enogastrotourism can be developed successfully in Don region through socio-cultural project management based on the thorough analysis of specifics of the region as a whole and its individual components affecting the marketing and advertising solutions.

PERAN MASYARAKAT TERHADAP PEMBAYARAN RETRIBUSI SAMPAH DI KOTA SAMARINDA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Abd Rachim AF,
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Behavior

One of the environmental problems in urban areas is the pollution caused by garbage. The waste problem is caused by various factors such as population growth, living standards changes, lifestyles and behavior, as well as how the waste management system. This study aims to determine how the role of society to levy payments garbage in Samarinda. This research was descriptive; where the data is collected then compiled, described and analyzed used relative frequency analysis. The participation of the public to pay a "levy junk", which stated to pay 96.67%, for each month and the rates stated society cheap, moderate and fairly, respectively 46.08%, 21.21%, 21.04%. Base on the data , the role of the community to pay "levy junk" quite high.

A Study Of Expansion Of The Fmcg Market Across Rural Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 142-151
Author(s):  
Dr. Udayagiri Raghunath ◽  
Dr. V.Venkateswara Rao
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Customer Choice ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Rural Markets ◽  
Urban Markets ◽  
Tv Media ◽  
Rural Clients ◽  
Tv Watching

The corporate companies dealing with FMCG products have started focusing on rural markets as the urban markets have become saturated and highly competitive. Capturing the rural markets brings forth a whole new set of challenges as it is laborious to break in. This market presents the companies with gamut challenges on a new dimension which demand entirely different strategies as compared to the ones used in urban areas. Studying the rural markets for rural markets has become crucial more than ever. It is an objective learning, psychiatry of dispersion, impact of the FMCG in rural areas. This research uses diverse utensils, procedure toward analyze composed records. Several of the features used in analyzing the data are the consumer characteristics like educational qualifications, professions they are in, and the income levels. The role of TV media advertising is also analyzed. Many deals and promotions advertised on TV are investigated. The scope of authority wield by publicity happening customer choice production has looked into. The different levels of media exposure and preferable TV watching times and their favorite programs considered while analyzing the data. The spending prototype of rural clients on FMCG is examined and further categorized based on their income levels, educational qualifications, and legal awareness of consumer act. All the analyzed data, results, and suggestions presented in the visual formats.

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