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Export resilience – A future key success factor for Upper Austrian B2B companies?

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  • Margarethe Überwimmer

    (Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Steyr, Austria)

  • Harald Hammer

    (Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Steyr, Austria)

  • Jakob Vaboschek

    (Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Steyr, Austria)

Abstract

Seeing Upper Austrian B2B companies struggle in keeping up their export business intensity and simultaneously accelerating the usage of digital communication and export channels, creates the starting point for an Export Resilience study in Upper Austria, an export-oriented region. The main motivation for implementing a study in this particular field was the creation of a pool of current key findings, ring-fenced by clear managerial implications and recommendations, which respond to future export trends emerging out of the study. An online questionnaire was sent out to exporting B2B companies which was completed by 173 respondents. The data provides insights in triggers of export resilience, insight in future export channels and differences in the export strategy of Upper Austrian B2B companies. For example, the survey has shown that 52% of the participating businesses can be classified as being „immune” to external influences. Further insights are given according to the change of digital export tools, the form of meetings and AI based export tools. Consequently, the extent to which the implementation of the export resilience study stimulated the dialogue between the academic and business community led to managerial recommendations for Austrian B2B export companies.

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  • Margarethe Überwimmer & Harald Hammer & Jakob Vaboschek, 2021. "Export resilience – A future key success factor for Upper Austrian B2B companies?," Marketing Science & Inspirations, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, vol. 16(2), pages 42-51.
    • Handle: RePEc:cub:journm:v:16:y:2021:i:2:p:42-51
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    Keywords

    export; export resilience; digital communication; Upper Austria; sales management; B2B companies;
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    JEL classification:

    • M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
    • M31 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Marketing
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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