International Export Orientation and Firm’s Performance: Evidence from Enterprise Survey Data of India

Study of linkages between productivity, export, and outward foreign direct investment: An empirical perspective of Indian manufacturing industries

“…Further, the study finds a positive and significant cointegration between export and productivity for the highly productive group. This supports the findings by Ali et al (2018) that firm performances encourage export in India. In addition, the cointegration among productivity, export, and outward FDI show significance in the case of the medium productive group in the short‐run.…”

“…In the Indian context, Mukim (2011) and Haidar (2012) find that the more productive firms can export more products, but there is no evidence found for learning by exporting approach. In addition, Ali, Yusuf, and Ali (2018) highlighted that domestic performance has a crucial role to influence the export‐orientation of Indian manufacturing units. In contrast, Sharma (2018), Gupta et al (2018), and Rijesh (2019) empirically verify the export‐led hypothesis and suggest that the improvement in productivity leads to more exports from Indian manufacturing industries.…”

“…Therefore, proper export‐oriented policies should be taken into consideration and to make export an engine of economic growth. As export‐oriented enterprises are very much well‐aware of various business tactics and have a comparative advantage over the domestic firms to minimize the business obstacles by accessing to transport, finance, management competition, and secure business environment (Ali et al, 2018). Third, in our study, we reveal that outward FDI is a very strong instrument to cause productivity in almost all industries.…”