Resource determinants of strategy and performance: The case of British exporters

By Elena Beleska-Spasova, K. Glaister, Chris Stride. 2012

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This study adopts the RBV of the firm in order to identify critical advantage-generating resources and capabilities with strong positive export strategy and performance implications. The proposed export performance model is tested using a structural equation modelling approach on a sample of 356 British exporters. We examine the individual as well as the concurrent (simultaneous) direct and indirect effects of five resource bundles on export performance. We find that four resources/capabilities: managerial, knowledge, planning, and technology, have a significant positive direct effect on export performance, while relational and physical resources exhibited no unique positive effect. We also find that the firm's export strategy mediates the resource–performance nexus in the case of managerial and knowledge-based resources. The theoretical and methodological grounding of this study contributes to the advancement of export related research by providing better specification of the nature of the effects – direct or indirect – of particular resource factors on export performance.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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How marketing capabilities and current performance drive strategic intentions in international markets (2017, background): “Recent work on competitive strategy stresses the primacy of firmcontrolled factors over those of the external environment in drivingperformance outcomes (Beleska-Spasova et al., 2012; Brouthers et al., 2009; Morgan et al., 2004).”
The determinants of export performance: a review of the literature 2006-2014 (2016, unknown): “…M SMEs Q(M) 311 74.22% EM EV MS, ANC, ESG, PM, ROS CFA, SEM 62 Stoian et al. (2011) RBV Spain M(I) SMEs Q(E) 146 34.50% DM F EI, ID, SAT CFA, SEM 63 Beleska-Spasova et al. (2012) RBV UK M+S SML Q(E) 356 23.70% EM/ED/TM EV EXPERF EFA, CFA, SEM 64 Chung (2012) SNT New Zealand M(I) SML(I) Q(M) 100…”
In search of strategic assets through cross-border merger and acquisitions: Evidence from Chinese multinational enterprises in developed economies (2016, background): “Instead we present to interviewees a list of a wide pool of firm-specific resources and capabilities including managerial resources, knowledge-based resources, organisational capabilities, relational resources and physical resources as shown in Beleska-Spasova et al. (2012).”