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| Author: | Yeoh, P.-L. |
| Title: | Information acquisition activities: a study of global start-up exporting companies |
| Journal: | Journal of international marketing
2000 : VOL. 8:3, p. 36-60 |
| Index terms: | Performance appraisal Exporting Human resource management USA |
| Freeterms: | Export companies |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The author examines four major sets of variables to understand their impact on firms' information search effort and the use of personal, quasi-government, and documented sources. These variables are information source characteristics, firm strategic organization, environmental characteristics and organizational characteristics. Empirical results based on a survey of U.S. exporting firms provide mixed support for these factors in predicting firms' information search effort and source use. Findings support the notion that firms that engage in greater information search and those that rely on personal and quasi-government information sources tend to have higher performance levels. these survey |
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