Do Internal Resource Capabilities Determine Export Performance?
Keywords:
Internal Resource Capability, Export Performance, Tobit Model, Firm-level Data, ExportsAbstract
Assuming firms’ internal resource as determinants of export performance, the relation is probed for of Goa’s iron-ore exporting using panel data and through use of robust dynamic fixed effect and dynamic effect Tobit model. In a liberalized regime it is identified whether the resource capabilities of firms’ help them perform better than other local firms in the export markets. From this paper it appears that the iron-ore industry of Goa though fully integrated with the global economy its internal resource capabilities need further orientation to attract efficiency.
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