Self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses: micro-level evidence

Rehman, Naqeeb Ur

doi:10.1007/s40822-016-0063-8

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“…Their empirical results show that ownership concentration increases the probability of successful patent applications, but at decreasing returns to scale. Moreover, Rehman (2017) analyses the self-selection (SS) and learning-by-exporting (LBE) hypothesis by using firm-level data on 29 countries from Eurasia and Central and Eastern European (CEE) firms. According to the results of this paper, foreign-owned firms are more productive and innovative, and have a greater tendency to export than domestic firms, because they are superior in terms of technology and management capabilities.…”

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Firm ownership and size versus innovation activities over the business cycle: near-zero inertia as a sign of the transition from the fifth to the sixth Kondratieff wave

Jakimowicz

Rzeczkowski

2019

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Research background: The innovation activity of Polish industrial processing enterprises is examined in a broader time context than typical business cycle frames, which makes it possible to look at the investigated problems from the perspective of Kondratieff waves. Purpose of the article: The aim of the research is to describe the combined effect of mutual interactions between the ownership and size of Polish industrial processing enterprises on the goals of innovative activity and their degree of importance for the further development of the innovativeness of those firms. These relations are examined in various phases of the business cycle. Additionally, taking secular changes into account made it possible to lend credence to the claim that the global financial crisis is a typical phenomenon for the breakthrough period between two Kondratieff waves. Methods: A characteristic feature of the applied method is the focus on the combined effect of the enterprise type and ownership structure on firms’ innovation over three periods: prosperity 2004–2006, crisis 2008–2010 and recovery 2012–2014. As regards statistical techniques, the Pearson’s χ^2 independence test and correspondence analysis were applied. The results of the research are presented in a graphic form in three- and two-dimensional correspondence maps, which indicate the co-occurrence of (1) ownership sectors and enterprise types taken together, and (2) effects (goals) of the innovative activity of enterprises, together with the degree of their influence (importance) for further innovative activity. Mutual interactions between ownership sectors and enterprise types were visually analysed, indicating significant features of the triangles representing them. Findings & Value added: A significant combined effect of the ownership sectors and enterprise types on firms’ innovative activity was found. There was a certain type of dynamic equilibrium between those variables, which changes depending on the business cycle phase. In the global financial crisis of 2008–2010, a surprising phenomenon was found, consisting of the growth of innovative activity in most enterprises as compared to the period of prosperity in 2004–2006. The enterprises achieved the goals assumed, and the degree of their importance proved the significant influence on further innovative activity of those firms. Additionally, it was demonstrated that in the period of recovery (2012–2014) mutual interactions between ownership and size eliminated the relationship between those variables and the goals of innovative activity, and eco-innovations proved to be directly subordinated to traditional types of innovations, mainly product and process innovations. Changes occurring in the last of the examined periods are related to the near-zero inertia of the entire industrial processing section, which allows to interpret the global financial crisis as a typical phenomenon for a breakthrough marking the end of one Kondratieff wave and the beginning of the next. Moreover, 2015 is identified as the year of breakthrough, ending the Fifth and beginning the Sixth Kondratieff Wave, which was related to the transition from the information and telecommunications revolution to the biomedical-hydrogen revolution. The calculations presented in this paper are consistent with those forecasts.

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Firm ownership and size versus innovation activities over the business cycle: near-zero inertia as a sign of the transition from the fifth to the sixth Kondratieff wave

Jakimowicz

Rzeczkowski

2019

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“…On the one hand, self-selection posits that firms engage in export activity by virtue of their productivity and innovation. And, on the other hand, learning-by-doing suggests that firms become more productive and innovative as a consequence of exporting experience ( Rehman, 2017 ). This distinction is both subtle and profound, and may explain SMEs’ propensity to choose between direct versus indirect exporting.…”

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The effect of government support on Bureaucracy, COVID-19 resilience and export intensity: Evidence from North Africa

Onjewu

Olan

Nyuur

et al. 2023

Journal of Business Research

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“…Nonetheless, claims that self‐selection and learning‐by‐doing are a mutually inclusive occurrence abound. Works including Bravo‐Ortega, Benavente, and González (2014) and Rehman (2017) have advanced a notion of simultaneity in the mechanism by which firms are stimulated to export both by a pre‐entry (self‐selection) and a post‐entry (learning‐by‐doing) disposition. The current theorization subscribes to this latter perspective of self‐selection and learning‐by‐doing working in concert.…”

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Foreign Ownership, Board of Directors, and Environmental Commitment in European International New Ventures

Onjewu,

Nyuur,

Amankwah‐Amoah

et al. 2024

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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This study examines the effect of foreign ownership and the presence of a board of directors on commitment to environmental issues and export intensity. Based on a robust path analysis of 181 international new ventures spanning 25 European countries, it is found that foreign ownership significantly boosts the environmental commitment and exports of this breed of firms. On the contrary, board of directors bears no relationship with the aforementioned outcomes. Theoretically, this paper expands the international entrepreneurship discourse by uncommonly investigating environmental issues in the context of international new ventures. Practically, insights are offered to owners/managers of international new ventures to reflect on the distinctive value of foreign ownership and board of directors in their environmental and internationalization agenda. Regional policymakers' attention is drawn to the contribution of foreign ownership as a harbinger of environmental performance and greater export intensity.

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Self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses: micro-level evidence

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Firm ownership and size versus innovation activities over the business cycle: near-zero inertia as a sign of the transition from the fifth to the sixth Kondratieff wave

Firm ownership and size versus innovation activities over the business cycle: near-zero inertia as a sign of the transition from the fifth to the sixth Kondratieff wave

The effect of government support on Bureaucracy, COVID-19 resilience and export intensity: Evidence from North Africa

Foreign Ownership, Board of Directors, and Environmental Commitment in European International New Ventures

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