Export and Social Networking as a Resource Control Strategy: A Case Study from the Azores

Câmara, Francisco

doi:10.1080/08276331.2006.10593379

Cited by 14 publications

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“…In any case, island entrepreneurs can develop and nurture 'extra-island' contacts and markets to usurp the limitations of the domestic market using, for example, diaspora links (e.g. Camara, 2006;Baldacchino and Fairbairn, 2006). The absence of notable local market opportunities induces small state entrepreneurs to ''export or perish'', obliging a competitive strategy from inception (Baldacchino and Vella Bonnici, 2006).…”

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The Beak of the Finch: Insights into the Economic Development of Small Economies

Baldacchino

Bertram

2009

The Round Table

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Many scholarly analyses of small economies over the past two decades have been premised on the implicit understanding that a state's small population size, compounded by such factors as islandness and remoteness from markets, is to blame for an inherent and unavoidable economic vulnerability. The article critiques the core features of this approach, and proposes in turn to discuss and profile the development trajectories of small economies from the vantage point of the strategic flexibility used by small states (at multiple levels as individuals, household units, corporate entities and complete jurisdictions) in seeking to exploit opportunities and maximize economic gains in a turbulent and dynamic external environment with which they must engage. Keeping alive a portfolio of skills and revenue streams enables these actors to migrate intersectorally as well as trans-nationally.

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Section: Comment Thusmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Beak of the Finch: Insights into the Economic Development of Small Economies

Baldacchino

Bertram

2009

The Round Table

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“…Networking with other firms on joint projects and operations of subsidiaries overseas are significantly linked to exports of large-sized firms, while affiliations with business associations and R&D intensity are critical for small-sized firms to export. Camara (2006) To study how an Azorean small, family-run fresh fish exporting business is impacted by social networks and how export orientation can produce a successful resource control strategy.…”

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The impact of international networking and co-marketing alliances on export performance: a global perspective

Bujac¹,

Schøtt²

2021

IJEXPORTM

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The study aims at theoretically developing and empirically testing a model for how exporting is embedded in international networking around the entrepreneur and co-marketing alliances. The sample consists of 58,161 entrepreneurs in 76 countries, which have been surveyed through the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The analysis of the data is done through hierarchical linear models. The results show that both networking and co-marketing alliances are promoting the export intensity of the firm. Furthermore, attributes of the firms and entrepreneurs shape the interpersonal networking and the inter-organisational relations. These findings contribute to the extant literature, such as that networking impacts export performance and that co-marketing alliances are a significant factor to take into consideration in future exporting endeavours.

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“…The efficacy of long-term relationship as an agency cost control mechanism in SME debt financing has been studied both theoretically and empirically [14,21,22] . Relationship lending relies upon a "relationship" between the bank and the SME [21] , and this relationship brings about socially embedded product-information [23] , which includes not only information related to private and enterprise credit but also the operational conditions of industries and enterprises upstream or downstream. This soft information has the ability to decrease the information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers with respect to both the quality of the business and the business owner's opportunism [22] .…”

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Factors influencing bank financing quality of SMEs in clusters

Hua

2008

2008 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering 15th Annual Conference Proceedings

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This paper proposes a Box-Cox transformation on linear function based on foreign research and makes an empirical study on relationship between SMEs' bank financing quality and SMEs' vertical relation with bank as well as their inter-firm relationship in clusters, and in order to explore the results deeply, we hold focus discussion with sample companies. The empirical study indicates that hard information has significant influence on SMEs financing quality in clusters under the condition of neglecting other factors. However, with consideration of both hard information and soft information, soft information exerts significant positive effect on bank financing quality while the effect of hard information on financing quality has been reduced. Most importantly, network information also has significant effect on clusters SMEs financing quality.

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Export and Social Networking as a Resource Control Strategy: A Case Study from the Azores

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

The Beak of the Finch: Insights into the Economic Development of Small Economies

The Beak of the Finch: Insights into the Economic Development of Small Economies

The impact of international networking and co-marketing alliances on export performance: a global perspective

Factors influencing bank financing quality of SMEs in clusters

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