کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1000478 937000 2012 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Learning from exporting: The moderating effect of technological capabilities
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
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Learning from exporting: The moderating effect of technological capabilities
چکیده انگلیسی

There is evidence that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. Scholars argue that exporters may have access to knowledge spillovers in foreign markets and use this knowledge to become more efficient. However, we know little about whether learning from exporting is affected by firms’ heterogeneous resource endowments and, particularly, about the specific firm characteristics that matter the most in this respect. Utilizing a sample of 1534 Spanish manufacturing firms from 1990 to 2002, we empirically analyze whether a firm's technological capabilities (proxied by its relative R&D expenditures) affect its ability to learn from the interaction with foreign agents. We find that firm productivity increases after exporting for all firms. However, ex post productivity improvements are larger for the more technologically advanced firms than they are for their less technologically advanced counterparts. Our results show that some firms stand to benefit more from exporting than others and hint at the importance of absorptive capacity for knowledge acquisition overseas.


► We examine firm heterogeneity in learning from exporting.
► Technological capabilities may affect a firm's ability to acquire knowledge abroad.
► Labor and total factor productivity (TFP) increase after exporting.
► Larger improvement in productivity for technologically advanced firms.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Business Review - Volume 21, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages 1099–1111
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