Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China
As the business arena becomes more global and therefore dynamic, organizations must balance their capabilities with the demands and the conditions of the international marketplace. This leads firms to trade off the development of more capabilities with the identification of core capabilities which c...
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| author | Efrat, Kalanit Hughes, Paul Nemkova, Ekaterina Souchon, Anne L. Sy-Changco, Joseph |
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| description | As the business arena becomes more global and therefore dynamic, organizations must balance their capabilities with the demands and the conditions of the international marketplace. This leads firms to trade off the development of more capabilities with the identification of core capabilities which can best improve export competitiveness and performance. Based on the Dynamic Capabilities Approach (DCA), we develop a model of four export capabilities, namely adaptability, innovativeness, unpredictability, and task-flexibility, aimed at achieving competitive advantage in foreign markets and enhance export performance. Based on a survey of 213 Chinese exporting organizations, we find out that innovativeness, unpredictability and task-flexibility are positively related to competitive advantage. Moreover, we uncovered that in the cases of adaptability, innovativeness and task-flexibility their impact on competitive advantage diminishes under higher levels of competitive intensity, however, for unpredictability this impact becomes negative. We also confirm the necessity of addressing competitive advantage separately from firms' performance. |
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| spelling | nottingham-487162020-05-04T19:52:07Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48716/ Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China Efrat, Kalanit Hughes, Paul Nemkova, Ekaterina Souchon, Anne L. Sy-Changco, Joseph As the business arena becomes more global and therefore dynamic, organizations must balance their capabilities with the demands and the conditions of the international marketplace. This leads firms to trade off the development of more capabilities with the identification of core capabilities which can best improve export competitiveness and performance. Based on the Dynamic Capabilities Approach (DCA), we develop a model of four export capabilities, namely adaptability, innovativeness, unpredictability, and task-flexibility, aimed at achieving competitive advantage in foreign markets and enhance export performance. Based on a survey of 213 Chinese exporting organizations, we find out that innovativeness, unpredictability and task-flexibility are positively related to competitive advantage. Moreover, we uncovered that in the cases of adaptability, innovativeness and task-flexibility their impact on competitive advantage diminishes under higher levels of competitive intensity, however, for unpredictability this impact becomes negative. We also confirm the necessity of addressing competitive advantage separately from firms' performance. Elsevier 2018-03 Article PeerReviewed Efrat, Kalanit, Hughes, Paul, Nemkova, Ekaterina, Souchon, Anne L. and Sy-Changco, Joseph (2018) Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China. Journal of Business Research, 84 . pp. 114-124. ISSN 0148-2963 Competitive advantage; Adaptability innovativeness; Unpredictability task flexibility; Performance https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296317304642 doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.11.018 doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.11.018 |
| spellingShingle | Competitive advantage; Adaptability innovativeness; Unpredictability task flexibility; Performance Efrat, Kalanit Hughes, Paul Nemkova, Ekaterina Souchon, Anne L. Sy-Changco, Joseph Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China |
| title | Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China |
| title_full | Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China |
| title_short | Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China |
| title_sort | leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from china |
| topic | Competitive advantage; Adaptability innovativeness; Unpredictability task flexibility; Performance |
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