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Profiling exporting SMEs: The role of innovation-orientation

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  • Boumediene Ramdani
  • Fateh Belaid

    (UCL FGES - Université Catholique de Lille - Faculté de gestion, économie et sciences - ICL - Institut Catholique de Lille - UCL - Université catholique de Lille, LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Elias Boukrami

Abstract

Existing evidence suggest that SME exporting is affected by a combination of environmental, firm-level, and owner-level drivers. However, it is not yet clear what constitute the profile of exporting SMEs and whether innovation orientation plays a role. To fill this important gap, our study adopts a configurational approach contending that a specific set of drivers makeup the profiles of exporting SMEs. Using the Classification and Regression Trees (CART) algorithm, we empirically show three distinctive exporting profiles for product, service, and process innovators, with varying magnitude and importance of export drivers. Our results show the most important export drivers for product, service and process innovators. While process innovators' profile excludes process innovation, product and service innovators' profiles include product and service innovation respectively. These results lead to major policy and managerial implications in relation to promoting exporting among SMEs given that the UK has left the European Union.

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  • Boumediene Ramdani & Fateh Belaid & Elias Boukrami, 2022. "Profiling exporting SMEs: The role of innovation-orientation," Post-Print hal-04542325, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04542325
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.04.059
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