The relationship between initiating export stimuli and export performance is examined within the context of four specific types of export marketing strategies. The nature of the export stimulus is seen to be associated with performance for some types of strategy but not for all. Consequently, export marketing strategy acts as a moderator of the relationship between export stimuli and the perfor...

A part of the radio structure of the galaxy 0932+075 emerged as a possible compact symmetric object (CSO) after the observation with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 5 GHz in 1997. More than a decade later, we carried out observations at 5, 15.4, and 22.2 GHz using the VLBA to test this possibility. We report here that we have found a component whose spectrum is inverted in the whole rang...

this study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. a total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the iranian food industry smes. the results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

effects of mating sex ratios on production performance in indian peafowl were investigated at punjabwildlife research institute, gatwala faisalabad. research was conducted from may through august 2007 toexplore the most productive mating sex ratio. the sex ratios have a significant effect on egg production.maximum mean eggs (1.63) were produced by the sex ratio 1:2 while maximum egg fertility (...

Management of the trade off of logistic performances has always been a key issue in industry. The trade off results from the contrasting business objectives defined at strategic management level and is part of the subsequent decisions taken at shop floor level. Therein, performance measures influence decisions. These are, in general, operational measures and might be more or less aware of the t...

The strategy literature is replete with studies focusing on such strategic and cultural firm-level factors as entrepreneurship and differentiation. Research indicates that these factors are major determinants of superior firm performance in the long-term. Nonetheless, a majority of works in this area has focused on large-scale, multinational firms. Very little is known about the effects of entr...

In this paper we examine entry decision of a foreign firm when the input market in the host-country is imperfect competitive and production requires non-tradable inputs. We show that the foreign firm’s strategic choice about FDI and export may affect the price of input in the host-country significantly and provides a rationale for doing both FDI and export at the same time. So, unlike the previ...

Business managers are facing the dynamic environment nowadays, and encountering more and more difficulties in decision-making. In order to formulate suitable strategies, they must consider all aspects of dynamic environments and situations which they meet. Sun Tzu's The Art of War is probably the oldest military book in Chinese and the principles which Sun Tzu advocated are still valuable in ma...