Obtaining informedness in collaborative networks through automated information provisioning – a modelling framework and active database system approach

Sustaining Small Exporters’ Performance: Capturing Heterogeneous Effects of Government Export Assistance Programs on Global Value Chain Informedness

“…Furthermore, it is in line with the conceptualisation of value chain informedness to achieve export competitiveness. This is because value chain informedness is an internal capability that collects and utilises the appropriate information for relational opportunities and knowledge [20,21], and so is expected to reduce information asymmetry and uncertainty, thereby serving to improve export performance with respect to survival, level of commitment, internationalisation and customer satisfaction. Based on the aforementioned information, we view EPPs as supplying firms with external information resources; the firms then internalise this foreign knowledge to raise their value chain informedness.…”

“…From a service-provision perspective for customers, for instance, selling opportunities are created for consumers when the customer informedness levels are increased when the availability of information in the international market is enhanced [36]. At the firm's level, informedness is used to describe a firm's ability to seek and collect critical information, therefore in turn improving its competitive advantage [20,21]. What is particularly related to this research is the fact that to increase firm competitiveness, firms must raise their level of informedness within a collaborative network.…”

“…Trade missions, export conferences, trade shows or exhibitions, and also support from international trade offices from the home country, are included to evaluate this type [1,16] to determine if the actual participation opportunities in the exporting activities are related to the value chain informedness and sustainable export performance. The value chain informedness was assessed by the indicators developed from existing literature [20,21,62,63], by composing firm informedness indicators and firm capabilities in value chain-information use to describe the characteristics of value chain informedness. Specifically, the firm informedness indicators, such as market, customer, competitor and network informedness, were adopted from existing informedness literature [20,21], and the information linkage-use capability in a value chain was adopted from information technology flexibility literature [62,63].…”

“…The value chain informedness was assessed by the indicators developed from existing literature [20,21,62,63], by composing firm informedness indicators and firm capabilities in value chain-information use to describe the characteristics of value chain informedness. Specifically, the firm informedness indicators, such as market, customer, competitor and network informedness, were adopted from existing informedness literature [20,21], and the information linkage-use capability in a value chain was adopted from information technology flexibility literature [62,63]. We conceptualised the measurement of the sustainable export performance through multiple dimensions, namely the value-and longer-term-oriented performance and growth performance, as discussed in Section 3.3.…”

“…This is partly based on the biased attention of research concentrating on the direct link between EPPs resulting in the deficits of knowledge required to improve EPPs [19]. To resolve this issue, we theorize that the impact of EPPs on SME exports is mediated by value chain informedness [20,21] and reveal how EPPs support firms in having capabilities to use foreign information within exporting networks. With regards to EPPs' impact analysis, we center that discussion on the fact that EPPs' role in export performance has proliferated while the study of sustainable export performance has had less attention.…”