Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in Colombia

Latin America and the Caribbean is recognized as a region of entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the high amount of ventures per capita; however, just a few number of companies export and most of them show a weak growth and little innovation. Using information from the GEM database - Colombia 2010 and 20...

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Autores principales: Martins,Izaias, Goméz-Araujo,Eduardo, Vaillant,Yancy
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420150001000082015-05-19Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in ColombiaMartins,IzaiasGoméz-Araujo,EduardoVaillant,Yancy innovation export behavior owner-manager commitment gem-colombia Latin America and the Caribbean is recognized as a region of entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the high amount of ventures per capita; however, just a few number of companies export and most of them show a weak growth and little innovation. Using information from the GEM database - Colombia 2010 and 2011, this study investigates the mutual effects between the owner-manager's commitment to innovation and the export behavior of companies. Logistic and Ordinal regression models are used to test the proposed hypotheses in this study. The main findings of this study suggest that the owner-manager's commitment to innovation is an important booster for exports, as well as for increasing sales abroad. Furthermore, the results suggest that the export propensity, in turn, increases the likelihood of involvement of owner-managers to innovate in Colombia.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.10 n.1 20152015-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242015000100008en10.4067/S0718-27242015000100008
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topic innovation
export behavior
owner-manager commitment
gem-colombia
spellingShingle innovation
export behavior
owner-manager commitment
gem-colombia
Martins,Izaias
Goméz-Araujo,Eduardo
Vaillant,Yancy
Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in Colombia
description Latin America and the Caribbean is recognized as a region of entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the high amount of ventures per capita; however, just a few number of companies export and most of them show a weak growth and little innovation. Using information from the GEM database - Colombia 2010 and 2011, this study investigates the mutual effects between the owner-manager's commitment to innovation and the export behavior of companies. Logistic and Ordinal regression models are used to test the proposed hypotheses in this study. The main findings of this study suggest that the owner-manager's commitment to innovation is an important booster for exports, as well as for increasing sales abroad. Furthermore, the results suggest that the export propensity, in turn, increases the likelihood of involvement of owner-managers to innovate in Colombia.
author Martins,Izaias
Goméz-Araujo,Eduardo
Vaillant,Yancy
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Goméz-Araujo,Eduardo
Vaillant,Yancy
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title Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in Colombia
title_short Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in Colombia
title_full Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in Colombia
title_fullStr Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Mutual Effects Between Innovation Commitment and Exports: Evidence from the Owner-Manager in Colombia
title_sort mutual effects between innovation commitment and exports: evidence from the owner-manager in colombia
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2015
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242015000100008
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