Do Asymmetric Networks Help or Hinder Small Firms' Ability to Export?

Echeverri‐Carroll, Elsie L.; Hunnicutt, Lynn; Hansen, Niles

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“…As already noted, Echeverri-Carroll and Hunnicutt (1998) argue that for a sample of high technology firms in Texas, knowledge used to produce innovations came mainly from cities outside the region where the firms were located. We use the notion of dynamic externalities here to mean that regions accumulate different levels of knowledge over time, and interregional knowledge 9 spillovers between regions may be more dependent on technological similarity than geographical proximity.…”

Section: Dynamic Externalitiesmentioning

confidence: 83%

Estimates of the Impact of Static and Dynamic Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Factor Productivity

LeSage

Fischer

2011

International Regional Science Review

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The authors develop an empirical approach to examine static and dynamic knowledge externalities in the context of a regional total factor productivity (TFP) relationship. Static externalities refer to current period scale or industry-size effects that have been labeled localization externalities or region-size effects known as agglomeration externalities. Dynamic externalities refer to the relationship between accumulated or prior period knowledge and current levels of innovation, where past learning-by-doing makes innovation positively related to cumulative production over time. The empirical specification allows for the presence of both static and dynamic externalities and provides a way to assess the relative magnitude of spillovers associated with spillovers from these two types of knowledge externalities. The magnitude of own-region impacts and other-region (spillovers) can be assessed using scalar summary measures of the own- and cross-partial derivatives from the model. The authors find evidence supporting the presence of dynamic externalities as well as static, and the estimates suggest that dynamic externalities may have a larger magnitude of impact than static externalities.

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Section: Dynamic Externalitiesmentioning

confidence: 83%

Estimates of the Impact of Static and Dynamic Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Factor Productivity

LeSage

Fischer

2011

International Regional Science Review

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“…In a study of high-technology rms in Texas, Echeverri-Carroll et al (1998) concluded that investor linkages had provided suf cient information and resources to smaller suppliers to undertake independent international expansion. Long-term relationships can lead to steady improvements in their production processes, often as a result of investor support to achieve higher-quality production and distribution standards and lower-defect rates.…”

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Growing Global: Foreign Direct Investment and the Internationalization of Local Suppliers in Scotland

Raines¹,

Turok²,

Brown³

2001

European Planning Studies

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The paper examines how the localization of multinationals can be linked to the globalization of local business networks, particularly whether domestic linkages with foreign subsidiaries can facilitate the internationalization of local suppliers. Detailed interviews were held with 16 suppliers and 8 foreign investors in both the Scottish oil-gas and electronics industries. The results highlight the importance to suppliers of 'piggy-backing' multinationals into new markets, but show its greater signi cance in the oil-gas industry. The paper concludes that piggy-backing is dependent on the strength and value of domestic links between suppliers and subsidiaries. Industry-speci c factors determine the intensity of these linkages.The implications for such developments are being absorbed by planning and economic development policy-makers at regional and national levels, as supplier and investor development is increasingly being placed within a wider policy framework of cluster development.

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“…Further, the recent process of production fragmentation and the rapid growth of firm clusters have been explained by the increasing need for output flexibility (Propris 2001). The recent literature has focused on cluster approach for suppliers (Echeverri-carroll et al 1998, Belussi 1999, Hemmert 1999, Porter 2000, Propris 2001). The literature on the cluster approach of suppliers has identified one of the factors which can be the source for suppliers' output flexibility, i.e.…”

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Study on suppliers’ flexibility in supply chains: is real-time control necessary?

Chan

Bhagwat

Wadhwa

2008

International Journal of Production Research

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In a supply chain, the suppliers' flexibility is considered as a tool to cope with the environmental uncertainties. Flexible suppliers are capable of supplying/processing other jobs in addition to the one for which they are the original supplier. In a cluster of flexible suppliers, it is expected that flexibility of suppliers be utilized more expressively through better control of the supply chain. The online real-time information system is considered as one of the tools for effective control of the supply chain. However, in a cluster of flexible suppliers, the physical and operating characteristics of alternative suppliers (available by virtue of suppliers' flexibility) may vary from each other for doing the same operation, which may result in a different lead-time to process the same job. This paper presents a simulation study on suppliers' flexibility level (SFL) in relation to information system automation level of the supply chain and physical characteristics of the flexible suppliers. This paper contributes an approach for decision-makers to identify the information system automation level and variations in physical characteristics of the alternative suppliers with respect to suppliers' flexibility level that can help in improving the overall delivery lead-time. A decision-maker can reach a trade-off between benefits obtained from supplier's flexibility and the investment required to have a suitable information system automation level and physical characteristics of suppliers. Results of simulation study show that if automation level of information system is not matching to the suppliers' flexibility level then supplier's flexibility may become counterproductive. Further, a relative change in physical characteristics of the alternative flexible suppliers as compared to the original supplier is more than a certain limit then suppliers' flexibility may again be counterproductive. However, a cost intensive real-time information system may not be needed when suppliers' flexibility levels are lower. Study identifies the productive and counterproductive performance regions for suppliers' delivery lead-time.

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Do Asymmetric Networks Help or Hinder Small Firms' Ability to Export?

Cited by 15 publications

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Estimates of the Impact of Static and Dynamic Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Factor Productivity

Estimates of the Impact of Static and Dynamic Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Factor Productivity

Growing Global: Foreign Direct Investment and the Internationalization of Local Suppliers in Scotland

Study on suppliers’ flexibility in supply chains: is real-time control necessary?

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