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Exploring the influence of risk management capabilities on SMEs’ export intentions: a cross-country analysis

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Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in countries’ entrepreneurship and export activities, their lack of financial assets and human resources makes them more vulnerable to difficult-to-control external risks, including financial, legal, and market risks. Since the exposure to these risks might reduce their willingness to export, SMEs’ risk management capabilities included in the dynamic capabilities of Resource-based View (RBV) might enable them to reduce their exporting concerns and stimulate their entrepreneurial spirit. In this regard, this paper purposes to investigate the impacts of financial, legal, and market risk management capabilities on export intentions of SMEs. The effects of risk management capabilities on the export intention of SMEs might differ depending on the countries where SMEs operate because locally specific government bureaucracy, documentation, standards, regulations, and cultural values make companies face various circumstances that might differently affect their management of multiple risk factors and export entrepreneurship. Thus, this paper also aims to determine whether the effects of risk management capabilities on the export intention of SMEs differ depending on their country of origin. In line with the research aims, this paper employs the Binary Logistic Regression Test to analyze 1221 SMEs in various countries. The results indicate that while financial risk management does not have any significant impacts on the export intention of SMEs, the effects of legal and market risk management on export intention differ depending on SMEs’ country of origin. This paper explains the reasons for those results by the institutional factors.

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    Mehmet Civelek

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    Michal Erben & Michal Kuděj

  3. Department of Economics, Pan-European University, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Civelek, M., Erben, M., Kuděj, M. et al. Exploring the influence of risk management capabilities on SMEs’ export intentions: a cross-country analysis. Int Entrep Manag J (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-024-00978-2

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