Mercado interno e externo: performance comparativa de empresas nacionais privadas e multinacionais na indústria de transformação

The Implications of Export Performance Measurement for the Significance of the Determinants of Export Performance

“…The study concluded that in 1978, it would have been possible to predict which firms in the sample would still be exporting six years later, based on a number of variables, such as regularity of exports and attitudes toward government incentives. Consistent with other findings on Brazilian exporting (Leite et al 1988;Gonçalves 1983), firm characteristics, particularly size measured by total sales, seemed to be a very accurate indicator of whether or not a firm would continue to export.…”

“…Da Rocha and Christensen extracted from this research the variables possibly associated with export performance and separated them into four groups: manager characteristics, firm characteristics, country characteristics, and strategy. The authors stress that although not many Brazilian studies examined the influence of firm size on export performance, those that did found variables such as size and capital ownership (national vs. foreign) were significantly associated with the performance and export profitability of the Brazilian exporters (Gonçalves 1983;Christensen et al 1987 that the evidence concerning the relationship between country characteristics and the performance of Brazilian exporters is both limited and contradictory. Yet the authors note that in general the findings of studies of that country's export experience tended to be consistent with the conclusions of studies of other countries.…”

“…Others investigated perceived export barriers or obstacles faced by Brazilian exporters (Guagliardi 1981;Figueiredo and Almeida 1988;Da Rocha and Christensen 1987). In addition, a number of scholars devoted attention to the factors that impacted export performance (Fleury and Figueiredo 1980;Gonçalves 1983;Christensen et al 1987;Carvalho and Guimarães 1988).…”