The effect of firm characteristics and the propensity to export decision in food industry

• Main Authors: Seyed Hamid Khodadad Hosseini, Ali Hamedani, Mohammad Javad Nikbakht
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2014-07-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Export; Social work study; Family pattern
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_138.pdf

This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of firm and management team’s characteristics to develop food industry. The proposed study considers four factors associated with firms and 9 factors, which are related to management team’s characteristics. There were 50 firms in food industry in province of Tehran, Iran and the study has been accomplished among all 50 existing firms. For each firm, between 2-3 questionnaires were distributed among experts in each firm. Cronbach alpha has been calculated as 0.879, which is well above the minimum acceptable level. The results indicate that management knowledge about export market was number one important factor followed by the level of technology used, competitive advantage, believe in being profitable.