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Milad Hooshmand Chaijani; Morteza Soltani; Mohsen Akbari
Abstract
Emerging economies today see the path of development in expanding their activities towards internationalization. Expanding the boundaries of competition has led businesses to focus more on expanding their operations internationally, and factors such as export performance have become a target for many ...
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Emerging economies today see the path of development in expanding their activities towards internationalization. Expanding the boundaries of competition has led businesses to focus more on expanding their operations internationally, and factors such as export performance have become a target for many businesses. In this regard, free zones are dynamic and economic areas that have provided a way to better support businesses by providing support resources. Business networking and the formation of business groups have also created a framework for cooperation and development of competitive capabilities for companies in these economies. To this end, relying on a relationship-based strategic approach, this research examines a set of intra-firm factors, inter-firm factors and external factors were analyzed to examine the export performance of companies operating in the context of the free zone with a network-based perspective (relation view). To fit the research model, a sample of 151 companies active in the Anzali Free Trade-Industrial Zone was selected and surveyed using questionnaire and structural equation modeling technique (using smart PLS software). The results confirm the influence of each of the intra-firm, inter-firm and external factors on export performance. Also, the moderating effect of political relations in the research model was significant only in relation to external factors on export performance, and in other relations it was not confirmed at 95% significance level.
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asghar rashnoodi; morteza soltani; asadollah kordnaeij; ali hamidizadeh
Abstract
Competition can be described as an extrinsic and environmental factor while competitiveness is an intrinsic feature. Free Industrial -Trade Zones are among the economic policies which the states’ macro-level decision and policy makes are involved in to enhance the national economy competitiveness, ...
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Competition can be described as an extrinsic and environmental factor while competitiveness is an intrinsic feature. Free Industrial -Trade Zones are among the economic policies which the states’ macro-level decision and policy makes are involved in to enhance the national economy competitiveness, regional development, privation obviation, absorption of domestic and international investments, creation of job opportunities, obtaining of advanced technologies and development of exports. This research intends to identify the competitiveness success factors in free industrial -trade zones at the international levels.To do so,74 research papers were reviewed using meta-synthesis approach. Before the texts’ codings, the documents were filtered employing CASP (Critical Appraisal Selection Process) methodology and 1097 codes were identified through the MAXQDA software. Among the identified Factors, employing skilled and specialist managers (39 references), economic stability and formation of a knowledge-based economy (34 references), political stability and constructive foreign policy (33 references), institutional contexts (30 references), implementation of approaches based on technology,competence and structure(27 references),intelligent cooperation effective relationship with international markets (24 references), alignment of national economy with global economy(23 references),implementation of co-competitive strategies and determination of competitive priorities based on competitive advantages(21references), performance management(19 references) were the most important codes identified. The present research is innovative in regard to identification of competitiveness success factors of the free industrial- trade zones at the international levels employing the qualitative method of meta-synthesis and MAXQDA software in the area of the competitiveness of free industrial- trade zones.