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Firm Performance and Business Models Based on Exports: Can This Shy Flirtation Become a True Love Story?

Firm Performance and Business Models Based on Exports: Can This Shy Flirtation Become a True Love Story?

José Pablo Abeal Vázquez, Begoña A. García, Javier Tarrío Saavedra
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781522572657|ISBN10: 1522572651|EISBN13: 9781522572664
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7265-7.ch023
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MLA

Vázquez, José Pablo Abeal, et al. "Firm Performance and Business Models Based on Exports: Can This Shy Flirtation Become a True Love Story?." Handbook of Research on Business Models in Modern Competitive Scenarios, edited by George Leal Jamil, et al., IGI Global, 2019, pp. 409-431. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7265-7.ch023

APA

Vázquez, J. P., García, B. A., & Saavedra, J. T. (2019). Firm Performance and Business Models Based on Exports: Can This Shy Flirtation Become a True Love Story?. In G. Jamil, L. Jamil, C. Pessoa, & W. Silveira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Business Models in Modern Competitive Scenarios (pp. 409-431). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7265-7.ch023

Chicago

Vázquez, José Pablo Abeal, Begoña A. García, and Javier Tarrío Saavedra. "Firm Performance and Business Models Based on Exports: Can This Shy Flirtation Become a True Love Story?." In Handbook of Research on Business Models in Modern Competitive Scenarios, edited by George Leal Jamil, et al., 409-431. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7265-7.ch023

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Abstract

This chapter aims to contrast if internationalization is a key element to explain the performance of a company, especially focusing on small and medium-size entreprises (SMEs), and to identify if a business model (BM) based on exports leads to more successful companies. There is a broad theoretical body and a representative set of methodological approaches in this area of knowledge; however, the conclusions reached are very different and in many cases hardly comparable, being limited to a specific temporal and geographical scope. For the purpose of giving a step further in the investigation of BM based on exports, the SMEs from the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) are analyzed through an exploratory research over the 2002-2013 period. The empirical analysis takes into account a range of firm variables linked to both firm management and fixed factors, such as the type of sector, the location, and the economic situation.

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