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Export Assistance: The Way Back and Forward

An Empirical Investigation into Developing Country “Born Globals”

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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)

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“Born global” (BG) firms have attracted many researchers throughout the last decade. The emergence of this phenomenon initially posed a serious challenge to the validity and applicability of the traditional “stage” theory of internationalization; however, scholars have more recently been able to reconcile traditional and new theories into a single framework for studying the process of internationalization.  This volume applies both network theory and knowledge-based theory to analyze export assistance in the context of internationalization of low-tech BG firms in developing countries (with an in-depth study of the apparel industry in Bangladesh). 

 

The findings that non-governmental network partners provide more useful advice than government agencies is one that may resonate through other countries, including developed economies.  Government’s more useful role is confined to the financial support and incentives that are provided to such firms.  It is, however, the commitment to exporting that emerges as critical for performance, more so than export strategy, suggesting that enhanced export performance is to attract, reassure and motivate entrepreneurs in ways that strengthen their commitment to international expansion. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Anisur R. Faroque

  • Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

    Yoshi Takahashi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Export Assistance: The Way Back and Forward

  • Book Subtitle: An Empirical Investigation into Developing Country “Born Globals”

  • Authors: Anisur R. Faroque, Yoshi Takahashi

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Business

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1296-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1295-3Published: 15 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1296-0Published: 15 September 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2191-5482

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5490

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 73

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International Economics, Economic Policy, Development Economics

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