علوم انسانی دریا
Milad Hooshmand Chaijani; Morteza Soltani; Mohsen Akbari
Abstract
Emerging economies today see the path of development in expanding their activities towards internationalization. Expanding the boundaries of competition has led businesses to focus more on expanding their operations internationally, and factors such as export performance have become a target for many ...
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Emerging economies today see the path of development in expanding their activities towards internationalization. Expanding the boundaries of competition has led businesses to focus more on expanding their operations internationally, and factors such as export performance have become a target for many businesses. In this regard, free zones are dynamic and economic areas that have provided a way to better support businesses by providing support resources. Business networking and the formation of business groups have also created a framework for cooperation and development of competitive capabilities for companies in these economies. To this end, relying on a relationship-based strategic approach, this research examines a set of intra-firm factors, inter-firm factors and external factors were analyzed to examine the export performance of companies operating in the context of the free zone with a network-based perspective (relation view). To fit the research model, a sample of 151 companies active in the Anzali Free Trade-Industrial Zone was selected and surveyed using questionnaire and structural equation modeling technique (using smart PLS software). The results confirm the influence of each of the intra-firm, inter-firm and external factors on export performance. Also, the moderating effect of political relations in the research model was significant only in relation to external factors on export performance, and in other relations it was not confirmed at 95% significance level.