Learning by Exporting Under Fast, Short-term Changes: The Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity and Foreign Collaborative Agreements



D'Angelo, Alfredo, Ganotakis, Panagiotis ORCID: 0000-0001-7896-799X and Love, James
(2020) Learning by Exporting Under Fast, Short-term Changes: The Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity and Foreign Collaborative Agreements. International Business Review, 29 (3). p. 101687.

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Abstract

What are the consequences for innovation of fast, short-term changes in exporting activity? Building on the learning by exporting literature and using a sample of 880 Italian manufacturing firms over two successive time periods, our study reveals key asymmetries. First, a rapid increase in export breadth, but not in export depth, reduces the firm’s probability of developing new innovative outputs. Second, no such effects are found in the case of a decrease in firms’ exporting activity. Third, both absorptive capacity and foreign collaborative agreements facilitate the absorption of the shock occurring when firms experience a rapid increase in export breadth, but not when the rapid increase takes place in export depth. Theoretical and managerial implications emerge from this research.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Learning by exporting, Product innovation, Absorptive capacity, Collaborative agreements
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2020 10:10
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 00:03
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101687
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3074421