Exporting May Not Always Boost Firm Productivity

Greenaway, David; Gullstrand, Joakim; Kneller, Richard

doi:10.1007/s10290-005-0045-5

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“…For instance, Greenaway and Kneller (2004) found small effects and only temporary effects of export market entry by firms in the United Kingdom on subsequent productivity growth. Moreover, the work of Greenaway, Gullstrand, and Kneller (2005) and Greenaway and Kneller (2007) points to the heterogeneity of exporting effects on a firm's own productivity growth. According to the survey by Görg and Greenaway (2004), empirical evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign ownership using panel data is rare and ambiguous, especially, for economies in transition.…”

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Sources of productivity spillovers: panel data evidence from China

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period [2004][2005][2006][2007]. This industry is characterized by its important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible difference between spillovers from foreign-owned units and from units which participate at global markets through exporting in comparison to domestically-owned and non-exporting units. We find evidence of stronger spillovers from exporting firms than from non-exporting firms. This is true for foreign-owned as well as domestic exporters. The strength of the spillover effects differ across subsectors. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: C230, C310, D240, L650.

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Section: Estimation Resultsmentioning

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Sources of productivity spillovers: panel data evidence from China

2014

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“…Some studies do indeed find a positive link between exporting and productivity (Baldwin and Gu 2004;Van Biesebroeck 2005;Aw et al 2007;Love and Mansury 2009). However, others find no evidence of such effects (Bernard and Jensen 1995Castellani 2002;Greenaway et al 2005;Arnold and Hussinger 2005). Part of the reason for this lies in the likelihood of a self-selection mechanism.…”

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Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

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Ganotakis

2013

International Business Review

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Theory points to the existence of a 'learning by exporting effect', in which exposure to export markets enhances performance through exposure to the knowledge stocks of trading partners. We investigate the learning by exporting hypothesis by examining the effect of exporting on the subsequent innovation performance of UK high-tech SMEs. We find evidence of learning by exporting, but the pattern of this effect is relatively complex. Exporting helps high-tech SMEs innovate subsequently, but does not make them more innovation intensive. There is also evidence that it is consistent exposure to export markets that helps firms overcome the innovation hurdle, but that there is a positive scale effect of exposure to export markets which allows innovative firms to sell more of their new-to-market products on entering export markets. Service sector firms are able to reap the benefits of exposure to export markets at an earlier (entry) stage of the internationalization process than are manufacturing firms. Firms producing a rapidly changing portfolio of innovative products exhibit higher 'churn' in terms of entry to and exit from export markets than low-intensity innovators, and this is reflected in the effects of entry and exit into and out of such markets.

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“…Propensity score matching to develop a matched control group on which to estimate treatment effects with a difference-in-differences specification (as explained below) using panel data is a robust technique used in other recent program evaluations (e.g., Blundell et al 2004, Galiani et al 2005, Greenaway et al 2005, Huttunen 2007, Qian 2007, Villalonga 2004. We implemented propensity score matching in three steps.…”

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Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

2010

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Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 quality management systems standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of nonadopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters had higher growth rates for sales, employment, payroll, and average annual earnings. Injury rates declined slightly for ISO 9001 adopters, although total injury costs did not. These results have implications for organizational theory, managers, and public policy.

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Exporting May Not Always Boost Firm Productivity

Abstract: Exporting, firm level productivity, matching,

Cited by 116 publications

References 34 publications

Sources of productivity spillovers: panel data evidence from China

Sources of productivity spillovers: panel data evidence from China

Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

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