Abstract:O estudo teve como objetivo testar a existência de relação entre a percepção prévia de barreiras à exportação e a continuidade das empresas na atividade exportadora. Além disso, procurou verificar se determinadas características das empresas estão associadas a sua permanência na atividade. Foram utilizados dados secundários constantes de um arquivo de dados sobre empresas exportadoras do COPPEAD/UFRJ, relativo a uma survey realizada em 1978 junto a 114 empresas brasileiras do setor calçadista. Entre os dados c… Show more
“…An explanation for the lack of support for this relationship in Brazil might be that international managers in this country perceive external barriers as more relevant for inhibiting internationalisation than internal barriers due to environmental characteristics which are different from Chile. For example, firm size is larger in the Brazilian sample than the Chilean sample, and although size is not found to be a significant control variable in the model, previous studies have found that firm size is positively correlated with internationalisation performance in Brazil (De Carvalho and Da Rocha, 1998). Also, Azzi da Silva and da Rocha (2001) also found that, for Brazilian exporters, most barriers mentioned were related to the external environment.…”
Purpose
Enhancing firm commitment towards internationalisation is an important step towards ensuring successful international performance. However, there is limited research on this topic for emerging market firms. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the internationalisation commitment of emerging market firms located in two Latin American countries with different institutional environments.
Design/methodology/approach
This study proposes and tests a conceptual model that includes drivers and barriers of internationalisation commitment. Data were collected from Chilean and Brazilian firms. The model uses confirmatory factor analysis to develop the underlying multi-item constructs and structural equation modelling to test the model.
Findings
The results show that managers’ perceptions of firm resources and capabilities are significant drivers of internationalisation commitment in both countries. In addition, perceptions of internal firm-specific barriers, such as a manager’s lack of international experience and knowledge, are negatively related to internationalisation commitment in Chile, but not in Brazil. Finally, external environmental barriers are negatively related to internationalisation commitment in Brazil, but not in Chile.
Practical implications
The context for the study is Chile and Brazil. Both are important emerging markets in Latin America, with a strong focus on firm internationalisation. The research design is cross-sectional and so does not allow for any causal claims to be made. The findings have important implications for internationalisation efforts of managers and export promotion agencies of emerging markets with different institutional environments.
Originality/value
This research contributes to the relatively scant but increasing number of empirical studies which investigate emerging market internationalisation in Latin America.
“…An explanation for the lack of support for this relationship in Brazil might be that international managers in this country perceive external barriers as more relevant for inhibiting internationalisation than internal barriers due to environmental characteristics which are different from Chile. For example, firm size is larger in the Brazilian sample than the Chilean sample, and although size is not found to be a significant control variable in the model, previous studies have found that firm size is positively correlated with internationalisation performance in Brazil (De Carvalho and Da Rocha, 1998). Also, Azzi da Silva and da Rocha (2001) also found that, for Brazilian exporters, most barriers mentioned were related to the external environment.…”
Purpose
Enhancing firm commitment towards internationalisation is an important step towards ensuring successful international performance. However, there is limited research on this topic for emerging market firms. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the internationalisation commitment of emerging market firms located in two Latin American countries with different institutional environments.
Design/methodology/approach
This study proposes and tests a conceptual model that includes drivers and barriers of internationalisation commitment. Data were collected from Chilean and Brazilian firms. The model uses confirmatory factor analysis to develop the underlying multi-item constructs and structural equation modelling to test the model.
Findings
The results show that managers’ perceptions of firm resources and capabilities are significant drivers of internationalisation commitment in both countries. In addition, perceptions of internal firm-specific barriers, such as a manager’s lack of international experience and knowledge, are negatively related to internationalisation commitment in Chile, but not in Brazil. Finally, external environmental barriers are negatively related to internationalisation commitment in Brazil, but not in Chile.
Practical implications
The context for the study is Chile and Brazil. Both are important emerging markets in Latin America, with a strong focus on firm internationalisation. The research design is cross-sectional and so does not allow for any causal claims to be made. The findings have important implications for internationalisation efforts of managers and export promotion agencies of emerging markets with different institutional environments.
Originality/value
This research contributes to the relatively scant but increasing number of empirical studies which investigate emerging market internationalisation in Latin America.
“…Their findings suggest that firm size can be associated to some obstacles perceived by managers, but not to all of them. Previous Brazilian research also showed that the perception of barriers appeared to be correlated, at least to some extent, to firm size (Cardoso, 1980;Figueiredo and Almeida, 1988;De Carvalho and Da Rocha, 1998). Yet a study in the engineering services industry (Fleury, 1986) showed no relationship between these variables, which can be explained by the type of industry surveyed (a services industry).…”
Section: Firm Sizementioning
confidence: 77%
“…This obstacle, rated as number four in the present study, also appears in the same position in Cardoso's (1980) study and as the ninth obstacle in importance in Figueiredo and Almeida's (1988) study. De Carvalho and Da Rocha (1998) found that the perception of this obstacle systematically differentiated exporters and ex-exporters in the footwear industry, with ex-exporters more often seeing this obstacle as more important.…”
Section: High Transportation and Insurance Costsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…The perception of obstacles by management appears to be, however, associated to the firm's continuity in the export activity. De Carvalho and Da Rocha (1998), in a study of the Brazilian footwear industry, found that footwear manufacturers that continued to export and those that ceased to export (ex-exporters) could still be discriminated, 20 years later, based on their original perceptions of obstacles to exporting. The obstacles that best discriminated the two groups were insufficient production and technical knowhow, insufficient financial resources and high transportation costs.…”
This study analyzes the perceptions of export obstacles to the Mercosur by top executives of Brazilian companies located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Differences in perceptions were studied in order to determine to what extent they were associated with industry type, firm size, export experience and geographic scope of export activities. Self-administered questionnaires were sent to top executives of Rio de Janeiro companies that had recently exported to Mercosur countries. A total of 69 companies returned the questionnaire, representing a total response rate of 50.36 per cent. Data were analyzed using factor analysis and stepwise linear discriminant analysis. Results confirmed the hypothesized relationships.
“…Na mesma direção, Carvalho e Da Rocha (1998), tendo como ponto de partida três anos de análise(1980, 1990 e 1994), encontraram que, apesar das características da firma não terem poder explicativo nos anos de 1980 e 1990, em 1994, a variável com maior poder discriminante foi o tamanho da firma. O que se observou foi que as empresas que continuaram a exportar em tal ano tinham o dobro do tamanho daquelas que deixaram de exportar:Observando-se os dados relativos aos três períodos, verifica-se que a diferença entre o tamanho das exportadoras e das ex-exportadoras se vai tornando maior em 1980, 1990 e 1994, sucessivamente, sugerindo que as empresas menores abandonam mais facilmente a exportação ou fracassam na atividade ao longo do tempo (CARVALHO;. DA ROCHA, 1998, p. 34) De qualquer modo, apesar do grande interesse pelos teóricos do comportamento exportador, ainda não se conseguiu chegar a um consenso a respeito do impacto do tamanho da firma no desempenho exportador das organizações Figueiredo (1980).…”
PEREZ, J.T. Evaluation of the relation between the fields of product innovation and internationalization in the production segment of machinery and equipments for the ethanol chain industry. 2010. 116 f. Dissertação (Mestrado)
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