Firm-specific and institutional factors as export performance catalysts: Insights from a developing economy (original) (raw)

this study advances a resource-based theory and institutional based view integrative theoretical model which contends that the export performance of firms will depend upon both firm-specific factors and their home institutional environments. specifically, the study hypothesizes that firm capital structure (cs), competition from informal sector (ic), and political instability (Pi) in home countries will directly and negatively affect their export performance (eXP). Furthermore, we hypothesizes that availability of cash (ca) will have direct and positive effect on eXP. Using partial least square structural equation model (Pls-seM), the researchers test the hypotheses based on a dataset of