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Firms' exports promoted by the entrepreneurs' networking: MENA and Denmark

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  • Mahdokht Sedaghat
  • Mohamed Derrabi

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An entrepreneur may go beyond the home-market and pursue marketing to customers in other countries. Exporting is likely to be embedded in the network around the entrepreneur, contacts who may channel, facilitate, encourage, discourage and hamper exporting. Exporting is expectedly affected by the entrepreneur's networking with advisors in the private sphere, the work-place, the professions, the market, and internationally. Specifically, we hypothesise that exporting is greatly promoted by networking in the international environment, but impeded by networking in the private sphere. The design is to analyse data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2009-2011 in Denmark and 14 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, where 7,346 entrepreneurs who were starting and operating businesses reported on their exporting and networking with advisors in several environments. Hierarchical linear mixed modelling shows that exporting is promoted by overall networking, and especially by networking internationally, and also by networking in the professions.

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  • Mahdokht Sedaghat & Mohamed Derrabi, 2013. "Firms' exports promoted by the entrepreneurs' networking: MENA and Denmark," International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 11(4), pages 427-442.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbglo:v:11:y:2013:i:4:p:427-442
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