OECD Economics Department Working Papers

doi:10.1787/18151973

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“…Strengthening its export performance was and still is one of the principal challenges. Given that exporting firms are typically the top performers in Portuguese industry (Arnold, 2015), it is important to study firms that are participating in international trade. Changes in the export structure have occurred in some sectors, for example in textiles and footwear, where Portugal's exports have moved into higher value-added products (Arnold, 2015).…”

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Relationship between intangible resources, absorptive capacities and export performance

França¹,

Rua

2018

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The new paradigm of today's world economy is characterized by the mobility of production resources and the ability to combine them in an efficient way. The strategic management research has recognized the importance of studying the companies' resources and capabilities and its usefulness to achieve competitive advantage. This perspective is consistent with the Resource-Based View (RBV) and with the Dynamic Capabilities View (DCV). The source of competitive advantage is much more correlated with intangible resources, since these are rarer and socially complex, making their imitation difficult. Consequently, intangible resources are considered strategic resources, since it allows creating perceived value by the customer, outperforming the competition, competing in new markets and being use in a wide range of products and services. On the other hand, the processes for absorbing external knowledge became an essential element for firms to adapt to changes in the competitive environment. Thus knowledge plays an important role in firms' internationalization process.Building on well-established theories, our research explores the influence of intangible resources and absorptive capacities in export performance of Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of footwear associated to the Portuguese Footwear, Components and Leather Goods Association (APICCAPS). Based on survey data from 42 firms, our empirical results indicate that globally intangible resources and absorptive capacity have a positive and significant influence on export performance. On one hand, the intangible resources that most contribute to this end are reputational resources, access to financial resources and relational resources, and on the other hand the absorptive capacities that most contribute to export performance are exploitation of knowledge, transformation of knowledge and general knowledge acquisition.Keywords: Intangible resources, absorptive capacities, export performance, SMEs, Portuguese footwear industry, PLS-SEM. ResumoO novo paradigma da atualidade da economia mundial carateriza-se pela mobilidade dos recursos produtivos e pela capacidade de combiná-los de forma eficiente. A investigação em gestão estratégica tem reconhecido a importância do estudo dos recursos e capacidades das empresas, bem como a sua utilidade para alcançar vantagem competitiva. Esta perspetiva é consistente com a Resource-Based View (RBV) e com a Dynamic Capabilities View (DCV). A fonte de vantagem competitiva surge mais correlacionada com recursos intangíveis, dado estes serem raros e socialmente complexos, dificultando a sua imitação. Consequentemente, os recursos intangíveis são considerados estratégicos, uma vez que permitem criar valor percebido pelo cliente, superar a concorrência e competir em novos mercados, sendo utilizados numa ampla gama de produtos e serviços. Por outro lado, os processos para absorção de conhecimento externo tornaram-se um elemento essencial para as empresas se adaptarem às mudanças no ambiente competitivo. O conhecimento des...

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Relationship between intangible resources, absorptive capacities and export performance

França¹,

Rua

2018

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“…China is the largest producer of the crude steel and followed by EU, Japan, and the US in order. It seems sure that the prominent difference in the stringency of environment regulation in China and developed countries (Botta and Koźluk, 2014). This implies that it is hard to shift the environment management cost on the product price, and the industry results in the lower level group.…”

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New evidence of environmental efficiency on the export performance

Sakamoto

Managi

2017

Applied Energy

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This article investigates the relationship between the environment-related efficiency and export performance according to the recent international trade theory which has offered to a theoretical model to quantify the Ricardian comparative advantage. We find that the energy and environmental efficiency can be a source of the comparative advantage in industries. The largest magnitude and the smallest of the efficiency on exporting are estimated to be NOx and energy efficiency, respectively. The empirical results further show that the efficiency has a smaller impact on export performance in relatively less footloose industries, and the impact of the efficiency is found to depend on industrial characteristics.  We analyze the environment-related efficiency and export performance empirically. The result shows that the efficiency can be a source of the comparative advantage in industries. The efficiency has a smaller impact on export performance in relatively less footloose industries.

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“…Barro, 1991;Devarajan, Swaroop and Zou, 1996;Cavallo and Daude, 2011;Warner, 2014;Bom and Ligthart, 2014). However, some specific public investments, such as investment in infrastructure or innovation, and productive expenditure, like those in education and health, seem to impact long-term economic growth positively (see Fournier, 2016; Acosta-Ormaechea and Morozumi, 2013; Barbiero and Cournède, 2013).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%