Export Clusters

Moosavi, Seyed Vahid; Noorizadegan, Mahdi

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-2156-7_8

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“…An export consortium can be identified as an official midterm or long-term strategic cooperation that acts in the role of the provider of specialised services to simplify access to foreign markets (UNIDO, 2003). Some advantages of such clusters include accessing on-time market information, the ability to enter a foreign market, availability of cost-effective technical support, and access to local marketing and advertisement channels (Moosavi and Noorizadegan, 2009). In Table 1 the authors provide a summary of the previous literature in the field of a collaborative network.…”

Section: Collaborative Networkmentioning

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Evaluating key capabilities for developing global collaborative networks using a multi-layer decision-making approach

Mahdiraji

Hafeez

Kamardi

et al. 2021

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PurposeThis paper proposes a multi-layer hybrid decision-making approach to evaluate the capability alternatives for developing a collaborative network to operate in the international market.Design/methodology/approachThe present study is contextualised in the Iranian pistachio export industry. An extensive review of the state-of-the-art literature on supplier collaboration was conducted to identify key capabilities that are essential to establish a collaborative network. The set of defined capabilities were then optimised through interviews with 14 experts from the relevant industry, academics and export authorities. A combination of the fuzzy Delphi method and the best–worst method (BWM) approach was, respectively, used to reduce the number of capability alternatives and assign priority weights to these alternatives. Subsequently, a weighted aggregated sum product assessment method (WASPAS) was employed to rank and evaluate the ability to creating a collaborative network for the export of pistachio.FindingsFrom the extant literature review, 18 capabilities for the formation of coordination networks in the international markets were identified. Then, the prominent indicators in forming a global network were extracted. After ranking the top pistachio export countries/regions to formalise an efficient collaborative network, it was revealed that although Iran exports approximately 30% of the global market, it falls behind the USA and European Union. The competitors have scored higher in critical criteria, including “trust and commitment”, “strategy and management”, “managerial control and standardization” and “financial resources”.Originality/valueThe proposed hybrid approach encompassing fuzzy Delphi–BWM–WASPAS offers to solve the capability evaluation and selection as well as ranking the possible alternative to formalise a collaborative network in an integrated fashion. This combination of methods is capable to first identify the most important factors, then measuring their importance and eventually rank the possible alternatives. The suggested framework provides an approach to deal with the uncertainty of global collaborative network formation.

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Section: Collaborative Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating key capabilities for developing global collaborative networks using a multi-layer decision-making approach

Mahdiraji

Hafeez

Kamardi

et al. 2021

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“…Cluster formation has expanded once with global supply chain formation, providing a better framework for the business environment in terms of purchasing power, obtaining working capital or credibility on the market. Moosavi and Noorizadegan (2009) designed a simplified cluster structure which includes government, financial institutions and SME enterprises. Once again, the financial component is included in the core cluster-framework.…”

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Working Capital Financing in Reverse Supply Chains – New Perspectives (Auto-Financing)

Nicolae¹

2018

EJEF

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Competition among Global Supply Chains has been studied intensively in recent years. While forward supply chains strategies such as supply chain or operational redesign were studied often, for reverse logistics most development strategies represented a new direction of research, especially regarding Supply Chain Finance domain. This paper explains how a reverse supply chain can obtain finances for its daily activities in its sorting phase by using a linear model based on penalties for the working capital issue. Here, traditional working capital financing (obtained normally from a financial institution) is replaced by a new production model, resulting in daily activities financing from another actor of the reverse logistics. In this case, the working capital provider is no longer a financial institution, but the original raw material provider. This approach gives a new perspective about finances in a supply chain hence it does not add more financial constraints for companies, and helps in the same time the whole supply chain from an operational point of view. As a result, the manufacture company has less financial constraints, the sorting process improves significantly both in financial and non-financial terms, and the overall supply chain is more competitive on the market.

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Cooperation’s characteristics for potential innovative SMEs in crisis: The Greek paradigm

Lemonakis¹,

Vassakis²,

Garefalakis³

et al. 2016

COC

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This study focuses on the role of business cooperation and firms’ exporting activity as the determinants of Greek manufacturing SMEs’ innovative extend use, contributing to the existing empirical literature. The empirical analysis based on unique both quantitative and qualitative data, derived from a survey covering more than 158 small and medium-sized Greek manufacturing firms, and examines factors affecting innovation activity, emphasizing on clustering activities. We find that inter-firm cooperation enhances innovation activity, which in turn empowers firms’ growth by improving domestic and overseas sales performance. This study opens the floor for a greater perspective in managerial and financial firms’ characteristics; Firms should take initiatives to promote collaborative networks for innovation and create trade associations that represent SMEs, in order to facilitate social interaction. Also, government should offer incentives to SMEs with high innovation potential (e.g. tax allowances) and invigorate linkages between universities, research centers and the private sector by creating effective institutional arrangements. Finally, we seek to provide policy implications to business owners, policy makers and academics, to optimize performance, in the shadow of economic turbulence that the country experiences.

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Export Clusters

Cited by 3 publications

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Evaluating key capabilities for developing global collaborative networks using a multi-layer decision-making approach

Evaluating key capabilities for developing global collaborative networks using a multi-layer decision-making approach

Working Capital Financing in Reverse Supply Chains – New Perspectives (Auto-Financing)

Cooperation’s characteristics for potential innovative SMEs in crisis: The Greek paradigm

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