Productivity and Trade Orientation in UK Manufacturing Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies over the period 1994-2003. Following Ackerberg et al. (2005) we adjust the algorithm in Olley and Pakes (1996) by augmenting investment and ex...

This paper investigates the relationships between firm, industry and market-related variables, strategy, strategy implementation and performance for Philippines exporters. The model follows Cavusgil and Zou (1994) with the addition of strategy implementation as a mediating variable between strategy and performance. We conclude that strategy implementation influences performance, both directly, ...

Purpose The significance of market orientation (MO) in industrial marketing literature is immense. Separately, the role dynamic managerial capability (DMC) as an individual-level has been found to be beneficial business-to-business (B2B) transactions. However, assessments DMC antecedent complement MO achieving firm performance are rare. To address this knowledge gap, study builds upon a researc...

This paper investigates the impact of acquisition FDI on exporting intensity in U.K manufacturing. A quasi-likelihood estimation method is used, and the empirical estimates point to the following conclusions: (i) UK firms with higher exporting intensity are more likely to be foreign takeover targets; (ii) US acquired firms increase their exporting intensity, consistent with the idea that acquis...

successful export of a commodity is closely dependent upon observing the related international standards. aflatoxin standard is an important index of pistachio import/export market. a lot of pistachio consignments are annually rejected because of being infected with aflatoxin. this results in export market's instability and fluctuations. the role of aflatoxin contammination in pistachio ma...

in this study, the situation of iran, u.s and turkey's pistachio export is investigated. to this purpose, revealed comparative advantage (rca) index is calculated based on agricultural and total economy export, separately, then forecasted by using auto- regressive integrated moving average (arima) approached, for 2008-2013. the results show that considering both commodity baskets, turkey a...

Background: Market orientation refers to a type of modern marketing that emphasizes the creation of continuous value for customers and buyers. This research was conducted with the aim of presenting a new model of market orientation with an emphasis on moral implications. Method: The present study was applied and part of mixed research (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population incl...