The Effect of Export Marketing Strategy on the Relationship between Firm Competencies and Export Performance of Small and Medium Manufacturing Exporters in Uganda
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2012Author
Bategeka, L K
Munyoki, J M
Ogutu, M
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Both the size and rapid growth of globalization have focused the attention of international
business researchers on the factors associated with firms’ export performance. However,
knowledge of this increasingly important domain of international business activity,
particularly in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from a developing
country context remains limited. To address this gap, we draw on the strategy and export
marketing literature to develop a framework for the relationship between firm competencies,
export marketing strategy and export performance. Theoretically, firm competencies shape a
firm’s export marketing strategy, which in turn, determine its export performance,
highlighting the central role of export marketing strategy in the firm competencies-export
performance relationship. Nonetheless, due to resource poverty that often characterize SMEs,
this relationship require empirical reaffirmations as not all SMEs involved in export
manufacturing business may have the capacity to develop a coherent export marketing
strategy. The authors empirically assess the predicted relationship using survey data from 76
SMEs in export manufacturing in Uganda. Our findings show that export marketing strategy,
contrary to our hypothesis, had an inconsequential effect on the relationship between firm
competencies and export performance.
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DBA Africa Management Review 2012, Vol 2 No 1, 10-23Publisher
School of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairob, Kenya
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Small and Medium EnterpriseExporting
Export marketing strategy
Firm competencies
Export performance
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