The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA OECONOMICA - Issue no. 1 / 2012  
         
  Article:   BARRIERS TO INTERNATIONALISATION: FIRM-LEVEL EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

Authors:  . 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The internal resource barriers that firms experience influence their capability to export. This, in turn, influences the export performance of the country and the extent to which exports contribute to economic growth. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of resource barriers, more specifically firm size, productivity, firm-specific capital and labour market constraints, on South African firms` decision to internationalise. From the overall results of the model, it is clear that the unobserved factors that make export more likely tend to be associated with lower levels of exports. The main findings are that firm size and productivity matter for exports.Furthermore, barriers to doing business, such as electricity supply and transportation and the use of imported inputs influence exporting firms` supply-side capabilities.

JEL Classification: F23

Keywords: internationalisation barriers, firms, exports, South Africa

 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page