[PDF] Top 20 Firm characteristics and export performance in Portuguese wine firms

... ficiency and the interaction term between size and age. Firm size represents the number of employees in the firm, age is the number of years that each firm has been active in this ...size ... See full document

... 52 Portuguese exporting firms was ...one-market export venture was used as the unit of analysis (Cavusgil & Zou, 1994; Zou & Stan, ...1987) and permits a more accurate measure of the ... See full document

... variables, firm size, shows a negative significant relationship, while firm leverage suggests a non-significant relationship with ...ROE and firm size can be explained by the so called “small ... See full document

... engage in the development of new products or services as well as their internal processes (Al- Ansari, Altalib, & Sardoh, ...“ability and the will to acquire a substantial technological background ... See full document

... with firm performance as well as export performance ...2013). In addition to the RBV approach, Ito and Pucik (1993) proved that there is a causal relationship between a firm’s ... See full document

... family firms is used to differentiate between family and non- family ...family firm is defined as a firm where different family members have a total ownership/capital stake above 50% (FAM = ... See full document

... the firm-specific determinants of listed Portuguese firms having Public Private Partnerships -Concessions Contracts (PPP-CC) compared to those who haven´t ...standards and other specific ... See full document

... defects in the textile printing ...textile firms at the productivity and production costs levels, by replacing the traditional method – human vision, which detects only between 10% and 30% of ... See full document

... presented in the previous paragraph, export intensity on one hand and financial performance on the other, in order to explain in what way they are linked and if there is a ... See full document

... the firms in the sample during the development of activities and innovation projects produce effects on the success of businesses in terms of product and process ...Thus, firms ... See full document

... (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977) theory suggests that companies begin exporting with lower commitment entry modes or on a smaller scale (see reviews by Calof, 1994; Dhanaraj and Beamish, 2003; Abdul-Talib et ... See full document

... of firms, although without agreeing on the direction of the ...US firms. Most of the literature on this subject has been done in the US ...(Singh and Nejadmalayery, 2004; Askenazy et ... See full document

... (Oa) and those with transactions ...a firm posses, the latter mirror the transactional benefits of common governance these assets in a multinational ...specific firms` know how related to ... See full document

... audit firms determine their fees they rely on certain client characteristics, one of them being the client’s financial condition (Simunic, 1980; Pratt and Stice, 1994; Choi et ...operating ... See full document

... sample firms. It is the smallest cluster, and has intermediate characteristics when compared to the two previous ...large firms). These are industrial firms that predominantly use ... See full document

... developed in the works of Johanson and Wiedersheim-Paul (1975) (Uppsala Model), Johanson and Vahlne (1977) and Johanson and Mattson ...Oviatt and McDougall (1994) and ... See full document

... Shyam-Sunder and Myers (1999) test the traditional capital structure approach against the pecking order model and they conclude that the pecking order model, which predicts that internal financial deficit ... See full document

... different firm characteristics on their perception of the judicial ...Exporting firms, FDI recipients and large firms are typically involved in more complex transactions ... See full document

... where firms can identify the opportunities into the ...information”. And the last situation is called “Trade mission and trade fair participation” where most companies with low experience find ... See full document

... leadership and corporate courage, a lack of information regarding technology and markets and the difficulty in finding cooperative partners for innovation ...factor in the innovation ... See full document